Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/10/2022
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy in a health centre in Bedale, North Yorkshire. It dispenses both NHS and private prescriptions and sells a range of over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy offers a medicines delivery service. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people living in their own home. And people can get a winter flu vaccination from the pharmacy.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a team with the qualifications to support its services. Team members work together to complete daily tasks. They openly discuss errors so everyone can learn from them and improve their skills. The team members receive in the moment feedback.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy provides a safe and secure environment for people to receive healthcare. Its premises are suitable for the workload and services it provides. The pharmacy has a room where people can have private conversations with members of the pharmacy team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that people can easily access. Its working practices mostly promote safe and effective delivery of its services. The pharmacy delivers medicines to people’s homes and keeps records to show that it delivers the right medicine to the right person. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it adequately manages them and stores them properly.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. And the team makes sure the equipment it uses is clean.
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 |