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Villiage Pharmacy (1032164)

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 22/08/2019

Pharmacy context

The pharmacy is located in a parade of businesses in a residential area. It dispenses NHS and private prescriptions, sells over-the-counter medicines and provides health advice. The pharmacy dispenses medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids for people who have difficulty managing their medicines. Services include prescription collection and delivery and supervised consumption.

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

The pharmacy’s working practices are mostly safe and effective. The pharmacy manages risk and keeps people’s information safe. The pharmacy team makes sure that people have the information they need so that they can use their medicines safely. The pharmacy has written procedures which tell staff how to complete tasks effectively. The pharmacy generally keeps the records it needs to so that medicines are supplied safely and legally. The pharmacy team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people.

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacists manage the workload within the pharmacy. They are comfortable about providing feedback and are involved in improving the pharmacy’s services.

Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The pharmacy premises are clean, secure and suitable for the provision of its services.

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy’s working practices are generally safe and effective, and it gets its medicines from reputable sources. The pharmacy team takes the right action if any medicines or devices need to be returned to the suppliers. The pharmacy gives advice to people about where they can get other support. They also make sure that people have the information they need so that they can use their medicines safely. The pharmacy team makes sure that medicines are stored securely at the correct temperature so that medicines supplied are safe and effective.

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities it needs to provide its services safely.

Pharmacy details

7 Howard Drive
BOREHAMWOOD
WD62NY
England

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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

Met The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies
Not all met 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:

Excellent practice The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards
Good practice The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards
Standards met The pharmacy meets all the standards
Standards not all met The pharmacy has not met one or more standards