Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 28/02/2025
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Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is located in a parade of shops in close proximity to a GP surgery. In addition to providing NHS dispensing services, the pharmacy provides Pharmacy First Service, Hypertension Case Finding Service, Emergency Hormonal Contraceptive (EHC) service and flu vaccinations. The pharmacy also offers private services such as medicines for weight loss and period delay via patient group directions (PGDs). And it supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support to manage their medicines at home and offers a delivery service.
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 April 2017.
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 |