Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 08/05/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in the centre of Yeadon. A large town in West Yorkshire. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. It provides medication in multi-compartmental compliance packs to help people take their medicines. And it provides a travel vaccination service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and manages the risks associated with its services. And it keeps the records it needs to by law. The pharmacy has written procedures that the team follows. The pharmacy has good arrangements to protect people’s private information. And the team have training and are knowledgeable on how to safeguard people’s confidential information. The pharmacy team members respond well when errors happen. And they discuss what happened and they act to prevent future mistakes. People using the pharmacy can raise concerns and provide feedback. The pharmacy team has training, guidance and experience to respond to safeguarding concerns to protect the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure and suitable for the services provided. And it has good arrangements for people to have private conversations with the team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that support people's health needs. The pharmacy manages its services well. It keeps records of prescription requests and deliveries it makes to people. So, it can deal with any queries effectively. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it stores and manages medicines appropriately.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services and protect people’s private 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 |