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Well (1039078)

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 15/05/2019

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy on a parade with other small shops in the residential village of Cudworth in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The pharmacy sells over-the-counter medicines and dispenses NHS prescriptions. It also dispenses private prescriptions. The pharmacy team offers advice to people about minor illnesses and long-term conditions. And offers services including medicines use reviews (MURs), flu vaccinations and the NHS New Medicines Service (NMS). It also supplies medicines in multi-compartmental compliance packs to people living in their own homes. ​

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

The pharmacy has adequate processes and procedures, so the team can manage the risks to its services. And it keeps the records it must by law. The pharmacy advertises how people can provide feedback and raise concerns. But the pharmacy team members cannot demonstrate how they have used the feedback to improve its services. The pharmacy keeps people’s private information safe. It has adequate processes available to its team members, to help protect the welfare of vulnerable people. And the pharmacy team members know what to do if they have a safeguarding concern. The​ pharmacy’s team members record errors that happen with dispensing. And they discuss their learning. They sometimes use this information to learn and make changes to help prevent similar mistakes happening again. But, they don’t always record all the details of why errors happen. So, they may miss out on learning opportunities.

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacy employs people with the right skills and qualifications to undertake the tasks within their roles. The pharmacy supports its team members to complete training. And this helps them improve their knowledge and skills. They tailor their training to meet their own needs.

Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The pharmacy is secure and well maintained. The temperature in the premises is not well controlled. And so, the team often find it uncomfortable to work on warm days

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy provides services to help people meet their health needs. It stores, sources and manages medicines safely. It has adequate processes to ensure the medicines it supplies to people are fit for purpose. The pharmacy supplies some people's medicines in multi-compartmental compliance packs to help them remember to take their medicines. And it sometimes gives people taking high-risk medicines advice. But the team don't always give written information to people to help them take their medicines correctly.

 

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The equipment the pharmacy uses in the delivery of its services is clean, safe and protects people’s confidentiality.

Pharmacy details

244 Barnsley Road
Cudworth
BARNSLEY
S728SS
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