Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/10/2023
Pharmacy context
This pharmacy (https://todmorden-pharmacy.co.uk/)
supplies most of its services at a distance, and
it is located in a parade of shops opposite a large health centre. In addition
to dispensing medicines, the pharmacy provides the New Medicine Service and
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service. And it supplies some
people with medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to help them manage
their medicines.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy adequately identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. And people can provide feedback about its services. It keeps the records it needs to keep by law, and these are largely kept accurate and up to date. And it protects people's personal information appropriately.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough
trained team members to help safely manage its workload. Staff complete ongoing
training to help keep their knowledge and skills up to date. And they feel comfortable
about raising any concerns.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are suitable
for the pharmacy's services and are clean and secure. The pharmacy's website
gives people information about who is providing its services.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its
services safely. Team members take the right action in response to drug alerts
and recalls. The pharmacy gets its medicines from licensed sources and
generally stores them properly. But it does not always remove date-expired
medicines from stock in a timely way. So, this may increase the chance that
people receive a medicine which is not suitable to use.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for its services. And it uses its equipment in a way which helps 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 |