Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 13/02/2025
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is situated in an industrial unit in the city of Sheffield. The pharmacy’s main service is dispensing NHS prescriptions. It dispenses some medicines to people in multi-compartment compliance packs to help them take their medicines correctly. The pharmacy is closed to the public and so it delivers medicines to people’s homes. It operates via the website www.optimumpharmacy.co.uk. The pharmacy recently agreed to receive prescriptions from people from a third-party online prescribing service including prescriptions for some high-risk medicines. At the time of the inspection, the pharmacy had not supplied any of these medicines to people.
This was a full, first inspection of the pharmacy following its opening in June 2023.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Pharmacy details
R3, Alison Business Crescent
39 -40 Alison Crescent
Sheffield
S21AS
England
What do the inspection outcomes mean?
After an inspection each pharmacy receives one overall outcome. This will be either Standards met or Standards not all met
| The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies | |
| The pharmacy has not met one or more of the standards for registered pharmacies |
What does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.