Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 23/10/2025
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is situated in the centre of the village. Its main activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions, some of which it delivers to people's homes. It also sells medicines over the counter and offers a range of services including the NHS Pharmacy First service and Hypertension case-finding service. It provides seasonal flu vaccinations and Covid-19 vaccinations. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support to help them take their medicines at the right time. It also supplies medicines to some people receiving substance misuse treatment.
This was a routine inspection of the pharmacy which focused on the core Standards relating to patient safety. This was also 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 October 2015.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.