Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/05/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a large medical centre in a suburb of Leeds. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. And it sells a range of over the counter medication. The pharmacy provides a repeat prescription ordering service. And it delivers medicines to people's homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a team with the qualifications and skills to support the pharmacy’s services. It offers team members opportunities to complete more training and provides feedback to them on their performance. Team members share information and learning particularly from errors when dispensing. So, they can improve their performance. Pharmacy team members can raise concerns particularly about their roles. The concerns are received by management but not fully acted on to ensure the team member has regular opportunities to perform in their role. So, they can maintain their skills and knowledge.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure and suitable for the services provided. And it has good arrangements for people to have private conversations with the team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that support people's health needs. The pharmacy manages its services well. It keeps records of prescription requests and deliveries it makes to people. So, it can deal with any queries effectively. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it stores and manages medicines appropriately.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services and the team mostly protect people’s private information. The pharmacy had references sources and access to the internet to ensure the team are up to date clinical information.
Pharmacy details
Crossgates Medical Centre
Station Road
Crossgates
Leeds
LS158BZ
England
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 |