Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 03/10/2019
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in a large health centre in the town of South Kirkby. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. And it provides medication in multi-compartmental compliance packs to help people take their medicines. The pharmacy administers seasonal flu vaccinations. And it delivers medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a team with the qualifications and skills to support the pharmacy’s services. The pharmacy supports new members of the team. And it provides all team members with opportunities to complete more training. The pharmacy provides feedback to team members on their performance. And it encourages team members to identify opportunities to develop their career. The pharmacy team has an open and honest culture. And the team members are good at supporting each other in their day-to-day work. The team members share information and learning particularly from errors when dispensing. So, they can improve their performance and skills. The team members discuss ideas to make improvements and they use these ideas to improve service delivery.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure and suitable for the services provided. And it has good facilities to meet the needs of people requiring privacy when using the pharmacy services.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that support people's health needs. And it manages its services well. The pharmacy keeps records of deliveries it makes to people. So, it can deal with any queries effectively. The pharmacy gets is medicines from reputable sources. And it generally stores and manages medicines appropriately.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services. And it mostly protects people’s private information.
Pharmacy details
Churchview Health Centre
Langthwaite Road
South Kirkby
PONTEFRACT
WF93AP
England
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 |