Crimond PharmacyGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy on the outskirts of a small village. People of all ages use the pharmacy. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions and sells a range of over-the-counter medicines. It also supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy team members follow processes for all services to ensure that they are safe. They record mistakes to learn from them. They compare the number and types of mistakes over several months, and with other pharmacies. They review these and make changes to reduce them. The pharmacy asks people for feedback. Team members discuss this to make pharmacy services better. The pharmacy keeps all the records that it needs to by law and keeps people’s information safe. Pharmacy team members help to protect vulnerable people.

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has enough qualified and experienced staff to safely provide its services. The pharmacy compares staff numbers and qualifications to how busy the pharmacy is. And it has more staff on busier days. This ensures skilled and qualified staff provide pharmacy services. Pharmacy team members have access to training material to ensure that they have the skills they need. The pharmacy gives them time to do this training. Team members can share information and raise concerns to keep the pharmacy safe. They discuss incidents. And they learn from them to avoid the same thing happening again.

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The pharmacy is safe and clean and suitable for its services. The pharmacy team members use a private room for some conversations with people. People cannot overhear private conversations. The pharmacy is secure when closed.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

  The pharmacy helps people to ensure they can all use its services. It provides services that the community needs such as smoking cessation. And it engages with the community through social events and fund raising. The pharmacy team provides safe services. Team members give people information to help them use their medicines. They provide extra written information to people with some high-risk medicines. The pharmacy gets medicines from reliable sources and stores them properly.

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for delivery of its services. The pharmacy looks after this equipment to ensure it works.

Inspection history summary