Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 25/04/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located within a health centre in the village of Wellesbourne. The pharmacy is open six days a week. It sells a range of over-the-counter medicines and dispenses NHS prescriptions. It provides services to clients on substance misuse treatment. And it supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people living at home. The pharmacy relocated into new premises in February 2019.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy has safe and effective working practices. The pharmacy manages risks well by doing regular reviews and it keeps people’s private information safe. It asks people for their views and uses their feedback to improve its services. It keeps the records required by law to ensure that medicines are supplied safely and legally. The pharmacy has safeguarding procedures and its team members understand how they can help to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy team members work well together and they are appropriately trained for the roles they undertake. They can exercise their professional judgement to act in the best interests of people they serve. And they can raise any concerns they may have with their superintendent pharmacist. Members of the pharmacy team are supported with on-going training to keep their skills and knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure and appropriately maintained.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It takes the right action if any medicines or devices need to be returned to the suppliers. This means that people get medicines and devices that are safe to use. The team members follow safe practice when assembling multi-compartment compliance aids. The pharmacy team members identify and give advice to people taking higher-risk medicines to make sure they are taken safely and effectively.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities it needs to provide its services safely.
Pharmacy details
Hastings House Medical Centre
Rivers Way
Wellesbourne
Warwick
CV359RH
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 |