Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 09/06/2021
Pharmacy context
PharmaC is owned by The Clatterbridge Pharmacy Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NHS Trust. Registered activities include the dispensing of prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients of the NHS Trust and other NHS Trust clinics, which are separate legal entities. The pharmacy dispenses approximately 12,000 prescription items each month and does not dispense FP10 or private prescriptions. The pharmacy opening hours are from 8.30am to 5.30pm on a Monday to Friday.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy generally manages the risks associated with its services and protects peoples’ information. Members of the pharmacy team work to professional standards and are clear about their roles and responsibilities. They record their mistakes so that they can learn from them. And act to help stop the same sort of mistakes from happening again. The pharmacy keeps the records required by law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough team members to manage its workload safely. The team members are trained and work effectively together. They are comfortable about providing feedback to their manager and receive feedback about their own performance to help them improve. The pharmacy enables its team members to act on their own initiative and use their professional judgement, to the benefit of people who use the pharmacy’s services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean and tidy. It is a suitable place to provide healthcare. And it has adequate facilities for team members.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are accessible to some people and they are generally managed, so people receive their medicines safely. The pharmacy takes extra care when supplying some higher-risk medicines. It sources and stores medicines safely and carries out some checks to help make sure that medicines are in good condition and suitable to supply.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide services safely. It is used in a way that protects privacy. And the electrical equipment is regularly tested for safety purposes.
Pharmacy details
Dispensary Level 7
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
65 Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L78YA
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 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 |