Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 12/03/2020
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is located on a busy high street in a town centre and it is surrounded by residential premises. The people who use the pharmacy are mainly older people. The pharmacy receives around 75% of its prescriptions electronically. It provides a range of services, including Medicines Use Reviews, the New Medicine Service, blood pressure checks and the influenza vaccination. It supplies medicines as part of the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service. And it supplies medication in multi‐compartment compliance packs to some people who live in their own homes to help them manage their medicines. And also supplies these packs to a small care home with fewer than ten residents. It provides substance misuse medications to a small number of people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. It records and regularly reviews any mistakes that happen during the dispensing process. It protects people’s personal information and it regularly seeks feedback from people who use the pharmacy. Team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people. And the pharmacy largely keeps the records it needs to keep by law, to show that its medicines are supplied safely and legally.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough team members to provide its services safely. The team discusses adverse incidents and uses these to learn and improve. They can raise any concerns and they can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe. These are not affected by the pharmacy’s targets. Team members are provided with ongoing and structured training to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. But the pharmacy does not always ensure that team members are enrolled on approved pharmacy courses within the required time frame.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises provide a safe, secure, and clean environment for the pharmacy's services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely and manages them well. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls. This helps make sure that its medicines and devices are safe for people to use. People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. But the pharmacy doesn't always highlight prescriptions for higher-risk medicines. And this may mean that it misses opportunities to speak with people when they collect these medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. It uses its equipment to help protect people’s personal information.
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 |