Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 17/07/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in Canterbury town centre. It receives around 65% of its prescriptions electronically. And it provides a range of services, including Medicines Use Reviews, the New Medicine Service and administers the influenza vaccine using a patient group direction. The pharmacy provides multi-compartment compliance packs to around 25 people who live in their own homes to help them take their medicines safely. And it provides substance misuse medications to around ten people and offers a needle exchange service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy generally identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. It protects people’s personal information well. And it regularly seeks feedback from people who use the pharmacy. It generally keeps its records up to date. And team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough trained team members to provide its services safely. They are provided with ongoing and structured training to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. They can raise any concerns or make suggestions and have regular meetings. This means that they can help improve the systems in the pharmacy. The team members can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe. These are not affected by the pharmacy’s targets.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises largely provide a safe, secure, and largely clean environment for the pharmacy's services.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. And the pharmacy largely provides its services safely and manages them well. It gets its medicines from reputable suppliers. And it responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls. This helps make sure that its medicines and devices are safe for people to use.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy generally has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely.
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 |