Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/05/2025
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Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a business park on the outskirts of Warrington. It dispenses private prescriptions mainly for aesthetic products, including botulinum toxins, and for injectable medicines for weight loss. Prescribers and practitioners access services through its website www.smilepharma.co.uk. It delivers most of its medicines to prescribers and practitioners, with some weight loss medicines delivered directly to patients. Some prescribers and practitioners collect medicines and aesthetic products directly from the pharmacy’s premises.
This was a reinspection following an inspection in December 2024 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1 and 4.2. This reinspection focused mainly on those Standards which had previously not been met. Since the previous inspection, the pharmacy has documented and embedded risk assessments and audits relevant to the pharmacy’s services, including for the treatments it supplies. It follows its own procedures and is good at making and recording interventions, to help make services safer.
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 |