Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 05/09/2023
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is situated inside an industrial unit which is also used for the owner's 'head office' operations. The pharmacy premises is not open to the public. It dispenses NHS prescriptions for people who reside in care homes. And it supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids for some of the people. It also sells over-the-counter medicines through its website https://www.pharmacyprime.com/. And it provides a prescribing service for an online weight-loss service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy team follows written procedures, and this helps to maintain the safety and effectiveness of the pharmacy's services. And the pharmacy has safeguards in place to help makes sure that the weight-loss treatments it prescribes are suitable for the people who use them. The pharmacy requests consent to share information with people's GPs, but it was not required for people to use the pharmacy's services. Which means people may not always receive integrated care. Members of the pharmacy team record things that go wrong. And they discuss them to help identify learning and reduce the chances of similar mistakes happening again.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough staff to manage the pharmacy's workload and they are appropriately trained for the jobs they do. Members of the pharmacy team complete some additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are suitable for the services provided. And the pharmacy's website contains enough information to make clear who is providing the services.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy's services are easy to access. And it manages and provides them safely. It gets its medicines from recognised sources, stores them appropriately and carries out regular checks to help make sure that they are in good condition. But the pharmacy does not routinely review people who are taking higher-risk medicines. So it might not always check that the medicines are still suitable, or make sure people are taking their medicines correctly.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have access to the equipment they need for the services they provide. And they maintain the equipment so that it is safe to use.
Pharmacy details
464 Ranglet Road
Walton Summit Centre
Bamber Bridge
Preston
PR58AR
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 |