Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 29/07/2026
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Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy in a largely residential area of Herne Bay near to the sea front. It provides NHS services such as the New Medicine Service, the Pharmacy First service and Hypertension Case Finding service. It provides a flu and COVID vaccinations, weight management, period delay, contraception services using patient group directions. It also provides supervised administration of certain medicines. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support. And it delivers medicines to some people’s homes. This was an intelligence-led inspection of the pharmacy following information received by the GPhC. Not all the Standards were inspected on this occasion. The pharmacy was last inspected in June 2018, when it was under different ownership.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
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 |