Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/11/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in a residential area in the village of Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Its main services include dispensing NHS prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy offers the NHS Pharmacy First and ‘flu vaccination services. It supplies some people with their medicines dispensed in multi-compartment compliance packs, designed to help people remember to take their medicines. And it delivers some medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with a set of documented procedures to help them complete various tasks. It keeps the records it needs to by law and keeps people’s confidential information safe. Team members are suitably equipped to help safeguard the welfare of vulnerable adults and children. Team members record details of mistakes made during the dispensing process and they make changes to the way the pharmacy operates to reduce the risk of similar mistakes happening again.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy team has the appropriate qualifications and skills to provide its services. Team members provide feedback and implement change to the way the pharmacy operates to help improve efficiency. And they are adequately supported to update their knowledge and skills.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are kept clean and secure from unauthorised access. The pharmacy has the facilities for people to have private conversations with team members.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are made suitably accessible, and it provides them safely. The pharmacy obtains it medicines from appropriate sources and its team undertake suitable checks to ensure medicines are fit for purpose before supply to people.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the necessary equipment that it needs to provide its services. And it uses its equipment appropriately to help protect people's confidentiality.
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 |