Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 03/04/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is on a parade of shops on the outskirts of Inverness. It provides a range of services to the Inverness area. And dispenses NHS prescriptions. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment medicine devices to support people. And offers a delivery service to housebound and vulnerable people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean. And provide a safe, secure and professional environment for patients to receive healthcare.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides a range of services to the Inverness area. The pharmacy displays its opening times and services in the window. And has a comfortable seated waiting area. The pharmacy provides information leaflets for self-selection. And provides extra support to people to take their medicines. It carries out dispensing in an organised manner. This means that services are safe and people do not run out of their medicines. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines. And updates the pharmacy team about high-risk medicines. This means that team members know when to provide people with additional information.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services 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 |