Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 08/07/2025
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Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is in Castleford town centre and it operates two distinct services from the same registered premises. The first service is accessible to patients and includes dispensing NHS prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides other services including Pharmacy First, the hypertension case finding service and a Contraception Service. The second service involves dispensing medicines to five prisons and a secure hospital. And supplying some stock medicines to the prisons through a wholesale dealer’s license issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
This was a full routine inspection of the pharmacy. The pharmacy was last inspected in May 2016.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 |