Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 08/02/2024
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy on a parade of shops in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire. Its main services include dispensing NHS and private prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy provides services such as the NHS hypertension case-finding service, the NHS Pharmacy First service and a ‘flu vaccination service. It supplies some people with their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs. And it delivers some medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with a set of comprehensive procedures to support them in managing its services. Its team members are adequately equipped to safeguard vulnerable adults and children. The pharmacy has a process for team members to record details of mistakes made during the dispensing process. And they are good at identifying patterns of mistakes and implementing changes to the way they work to help improve patient safety.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a suitably qualified team to help manage its workload. Team members complete some training to further their development and keep their knowledge and skills up to date. And they feel comfortable to provide feedback to improve the pharmacy’s services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are suitable for the services the pharmacy provides. The pharmacy has appropriate facilities for people to have private conversations with team members.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy manages and provides pharmacy services safely and effectively. The pharmacy suitably sources its medicines, and it generally manages and stores them appropriately. The pharmacy’s services are easily accessible to people and it has adequate processes in place to support people to take high-risk medicines correctly.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the appropriately maintained equipment that it needs to provide its services. And it uses its equipment appropriately to help protect people's confidentiality.
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 |