Homeground Care PharmacyGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a pharmacy which is based on an industrial estate in Swindon. It serves its local population which is mixed in age range and background but includes a significant number of elderly people. The pharmacy opens five days a week. The pharmacy mainly provides medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids for people to use while living in their own homes and in care homes. Most of these compliance packs are prepared with the assistance of a dispensing robot. The premises are normally not open to the public to visit in person.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has satisfactory written procedures to help make sure the team works safely. Pharmacy team members have procedures in place to record and review mistakes when they happen. They use this information and learning to avoid future mistakes. 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's team members 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 provides a safe and appropriate environment for the provision of pharmacy services. The pharmacy team protects people’s private information. 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 team helps people manage their high-risk medicines well. The pharmacy obtains, stores and manages medicines safely and ensures that all of the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. The pharmacy team takes appropriate action where a medicine is not fit for purpose.

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has access to the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the core services it offered. It is not clear that facilities are used in a way that suitably protects people's confidentiality and dignity.

Inspection history summary