Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/03/2020
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy beside a medical centre on the edge of a village, close to a city. It dispenses NHS prescriptions including supplying medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs. The pharmacy offers a repeat prescription collection service. It also provides substance misuse services and dispenses private prescriptions. The pharmacy team advises on minor ailments and medicines’ use. And supplies a range of over-the-counter medicines. It offers the NHS smoking cessation service. The superintendent pharmacist works in the pharmacy two days per month.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy team members follow written processes for all services to ensure that they provide them safely. They record mistakes to learn from them. And they review these and make changes to avoid the same mistakes happening again. The pharmacy asks people for feedback. And team members discuss this to make pharmacy services better. The pharmacy keeps all the records that it needs to by law and keeps people’s private information safe. Team members help to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough qualified or ‘in-training’ team members to provide safe services. Team members have access to training material to ensure that they have the skills they need. And the pharmacy gives them time to do this training during the working day. Team members can share information and make suggestions to improve ways of working and to keep the pharmacy safe. They know how to raise concerns if they have any.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are safe and clean and suitable for the pharmacy services. The pharmacy team members use a private room for some conversations with people. Other people cannot overhear these conversations. The pharmacy is secure when closed.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy helps people to ensure that they can all use its services. The pharmacy team provides safe services. Team members support people by providing them with information and suitable advice to help them use their medicines. And they provide extra written information to people taking high-risk medicines. The pharmacy obtains medicines from reliable sources and stores them properly. The pharmacy team knows what to do if medicines are not fit for purpose.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for the delivery of its services. The pharmacy looks after this equipment to ensure it works.
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 do the summary findings for each principle mean?
The standards for registered pharmacies are made up of five principles. The pharmacy will also receive one of four possible findings for each of these principles. These are:
| The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards | |
| The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards | |
| The pharmacy meets all the standards | |
| The pharmacy has not met one or more standards |