Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/06/2019
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in a shopping parade in Nottingham. It mostly dispenses NHS prescriptions from two local GP surgeries to people in the local area. It supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids to help people take their medicines safely. And it provides Medicines Use Review (MUR) and New Medicine Service (NMS) consultations.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy manages its risks well. It records any mistakes that happen in the dispensing process and regularly reviews and learns from them. This helps it make its safer for people to use. The pharmacy keeps the records that it needs to and makes sure that they are accurate. Its team members manage confidential information appropriately. And they know how to help vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to safely offer its services. It makes sure that its team members are suitably qualified, and it provides them with some ongoing training to help keep their knowledge and skills up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy safely provides its services from suitable premises.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy generally manages its services well. It stores its medicines appropriately, so people get medicines that are safe to use. The pharmacy’s team members identify higher-risk medicines and generally provide people with appropriate advice to help take them safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the right equipment and facilities for its services and maintains them appropriately.
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 |