Allied Pharmacy Skelton LaneGPhC

Pharmacy context

This community pharmacy is in a residential area of the area of Woodhouse in the city of Sheffield. Its main services include dispensing NHS and private prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides some people with their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs and provides the NHS Pharmacy First service. It delivers some medicines to people’s homes.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy provides its team members with a set of written procedures to support them in managing its services. The pharmacy keeps people’s sensitive information secure, and its team members are adequately equipped to safeguard vulnerable adults and children. The pharmacy has a process for team members to record mistakes made during the dispensing process. And they make changes to the way they work to improve patient safety.

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

  The pharmacy employs a suitable number of team members to manage the pharmacy’s significant dispensing workload safely. Team members are supported by the pharmacy to complete training courses. They can provide feedback on the pharmacy’s services to help improve service delivery.

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The pharmacy premises are appropriately maintained and are suitable for the services the pharmacy provides. The pharmacy has the facilities for people to have private conversations with team members.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

  The pharmacy’s services are made suitably accessible, and it provides them safely. The pharmacy obtains it medicines from appropriate sources and its team undertake checks to ensure medicines are fit for purpose before supply to people.

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has the appropriately maintained equipment that it needs to provide its services. And it uses its equipment appropriately to help protect people's confidentiality.

Inspection history summary