Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 13/06/2025
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Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is located in a parade of shops on a busy road in Rainham, Essex. It does not provide any NHS services but dispenses medicines against private prescriptions and offers a delivery service. The pharmacy also sells pharmacy-only and general sales list medicines through its website and over the counter. The superintendent pharmacist is an independent prescriber and provides a face-to-face private prescribing service. The pharmacy is also registered with the CQC for prescribing in treatment of disease, disorder and injury and slimming clinic services. And it dispenses private prescriptions from a third-party platform used for aesthetic treatments. Enforcement action has been taken against this pharmacy, which remains in force at the time of this inspection, and there are restrictions on the provision of some services. The enforcement action taken allows the pharmacy to continue providing other services, which are not affected by the restrictions imposed.
This was a reinspection following an inspection in November 2024 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1, 1.6, 3.1, and 4.2. This reinspection focused on those Standards which had previously not been met and had been addressed by an action plan (Standards 1.1 and 3.1). Since the last inspection, the pharmacy had put in place risk assessments for online services. However, this does not cover all areas required by the GPhC guidance, so there are still improvements that can be made. And the pharmacy had removed medicines advertised for unlicensed indications from its website.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 3. Premises
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 |