Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 11/09/2023
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is adjacent to a medical centre in the city of Sheffield. Its main services include dispensing NHS and private prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides 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
Pharmacy team members have access to written procedures to help support them in managing the pharmacy's services safely. And they generally keep people's confidential information safe. They record details of mistakes they make during the dispensing process and they discuss ways to learn and improve patient safety. Team members know how to protect the welfare of vulnerable people. And they keep most of the records they need to by law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy’s team members have the appropriate knowledge and skills to provide the pharmacy’s services safely. They complete ongoing training to help them keep their knowledge and skills up to date. And they provide feedback to help improve the pharmacy’s services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are kept clean and secure from unauthorised access. The pharmacy has the facilities for people to have private conversations with team members.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides a range of services to help support people's health needs. And team members manage the delivery of these services well. The pharmacy sources and stores its medicines appropriately and the pharmacy team completes regular checks of the expiry dates of the medicines to make sure to make sure they are fit for purpose.
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 |