Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 02/09/2020
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located in a supermarket. Most of its activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions and giving advice about medicines over the counter. The pharmacy supplies multi-compartment compliance packs to people who live in their own home. The pharmacy was about to start providing seasonal flu vaccinations through both private and NHS patient group directions (PGDs). This inspection was carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely. Its team members are helpful to people who use the pharmacy. The pharmacy gets its medicines and medical devices from reputable sources. It stores them safely. The pharmacy takes the right actions if any medicines or devices are not safe to use to protect people's health and wellbeing.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 |