Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/02/2020
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is located on a busy high street in a town centre in a largely residential area. The people who use the pharmacy are mainly older people. The pharmacy receives around 80% of its prescriptions electronically. The pharmacy provides a range of services, including Medicines Use Reviews, the New Medicine Service. And it provides travel vaccinations, influenza vaccinations (seasonal) and emergency hormonal contraception in accordance with patient group directions. It also provides medicines as part of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service. It supplies medications in multi-compartment compliance packs to a large number of people who live in their own homes to help them manage their medicines. And it provides substance misuse medications to a small number of people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy appropriately identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. It protects people’s personal information and people can provide feedback about the pharmacy’s services. And team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people. They record and review their mistakes so that they can learn and make the services safer. The pharmacy largely keeps the records it needs to keep by law, to show that its medicines are supplied safely and legally.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough trained team members to provide its services safely. They do the right training for their roles. And they are provided with some ongoing to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. They can raise any concerns or make suggestions and have regular meetings. This means that they can help improve the systems in the pharmacy. The team members can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe. These are not affected by the pharmacy’s targets.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises provide a safe, secure, and clean environment for the pharmacy's services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Overall, the pharmacy provides its services safely and manages them well. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls, so that people get medicines and medical devices that are safe to use. People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. And it dispenses medicines into multi-compartment compliance packs safely. But the pharmacy doesn't always highlight prescriptions for higher-risk medicines. And this may mean that it misses opportunities to speak with people when they collect these medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. It uses its equipment to help protect people’s personal information.
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 |