Swinton Late Night PharmacyGPhC

Pharmacy context

This extended hours pharmacy is situated in a parade of shops on a main road. It mainly dispenses NHS prescriptions and supplies a large number of people their medicines in multi‐compartment compliance packs to help them manage their treatment. The pharmacy provides other NHS services such as Pharmacy First, substance misuse treatments, flu vaccinations and the hypertension case screening. It also has a home delivery service.This was a reinspection following an inspection in September 2024 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1, 4.2 and 4.3. This inspection primarily focused on those Standards which had previously not been met. Overall, the pharmacy had made some improvements to its procedures to help make sure people receive their prescription medication safely. The pharmacy has reviewed its written procedures including its multi-compartment compliance pack procedures, and it has installed facilities to help make sure it complies with medicine stock storage legislation. However, the pharmacy needs to make further improvements, including making sure that all its team members are familiar with its updated procedures, and it should review how it stores semi-prepared compliance packs.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The dispensary did not have any spare capacity to store any further medicine stock or people's prepared prescription medication. Consequently, the dispensing benches were being used for storage purposes, which minimised the amount of available dispensing space.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

Inspection history summary