Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 23/06/2022
Pharmacy context
This is a private pharmacy based in an optician. It does not have an NHS contract. The pharmacy focuses on providing a range of services using patient group directions (PGDs). It sells a small range of pharmacy (P) medicines but It doesn’t dispense any prescriptions. It also offers a range of Covid-19 testing such as fit-to-fly tests.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy identifies and manages the risks associated with the provision of its services. Its team members have defined roles and accountabilities. The pharmacy manages people’s personal information safely and it keeps the records it needs by law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacist adequately manages the day‐to‐day workload within the pharmacy. She generally has appropriate qualifications to provide the services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure, and appropriately maintained. And it has made some changes to help keep staff and people using the pharmacy safe during the pandemic. The pharmacy’s website provides relevant information about its service.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy offers healthcare services which are adequately managed and are accessible to people. The pharmacy gets its medicines and medical devices from reputable sources. It stores them safely and it takes the right actions if medicines or devices are not safe to use to protect people’s health and wellbeing. But the pharmacy doesn’t make a record this, which could make it harder for it to show what action it has taken in response to an alert.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have the equipment and facilities they need for the services they provide. They maintain the equipment so that it is safe to use.
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 |