Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 19/05/2021
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy situated in a small row of shops in a Kettering suburb. Most of its activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions and giving advice about medicines over the counter. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi‐compartment compliance packs to people who live in their own home. Other services that the pharmacy provides include the substance misuse service, the Discharge Medicines Service, and delivering medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy adequately 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. It knows how to protect vulnerable people. The pharmacy mainly has adequate procedures to learn from its mistakes. But it doesn't always make records about mistakes so it could be missing opportunities to learn from them.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy’s team members work well together and adequately manage the workload within the pharmacy. They are suitably trained, or on appropriate training courses, for the roles they undertake. Team members can raise concerns if needed.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure and appropriately maintained. The pharmacy makes changes to help keep staff and people using the pharmacy safe during the pandemic.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy offers healthcare services which are generally well managed and are accessible to people. The pharmacy has changed the way it provides services during the Covid-19 pandemic to keep its staff and the people who use its services safe. 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.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has access to the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the services it offers safely.
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 |