Taw Hill PharmacyGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy located in a small shopping park in the Taw Hill area of Swindon. It serves its local population which is mixed in age range and background. The pharmacy opens five days a week. The pharmacy sells a range of over-the-counter medicines, dispenses NHS prescriptions, provides flu vaccinations, offers treatment for a variety of minor ailments and supplies medicines in multi-compartment medicine devices for people to use living in their own homes.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has written procedures to help make sure the team works safely. Pharmacy team members record and review some mistakes that happen. But the pharmacy team do not always look into detail about why errors have happened which may mean that opportunities for learning are missed. Pharmacy team members are clear about their roles and responsibilities. The pharmacy asks its customers and staff for their views and uses this to help improve services. It manages and protects people’s confidential information and it tells people how their private information will be used. The pharmacy has appropriate insurance to protect people when things do go wrong.

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

  The pharmacy staff have the appropriate skills, qualifications and training to deliver services safely and effectively. The pharmacy team members work well together. They are comfortable about providing feedback and raising concerns and are involved in improving pharmacy services.

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The pharmacy generally provides a safe and appropriate environment for the provision of pharmacy services. The pharmacy team protect private information and the pharmacy is secure and protected from unauthorised access.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

  The pharmacy’s services are accessible, effectively managed and delivered safely. The pharmacy obtains, stores and manages medicines safely and ensure that all of the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. The pharmacy team take appropriate action where a medicine is not fit for purpose. The pharmacy does not currently have a hazardous waste bin to dispose of hazardous waste medicines and this may increase the risk to staff and the environment.

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the services offered. The pharmacy uses its facilities to protect patient privacy.

Inspection history summary