Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacy AlderstonGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy beside other shops in a residential area. It dispenses NHS prescriptions including supplying medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs. The pharmacy offers a repeat prescription collection service and a medicines’ delivery service. It also provides substance misuse services and dispenses private prescriptions. The pharmacy team advises on minor ailments and medicines’ use. And supplies a range of over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy offers the smoking cessation service, seasonal flu vaccination and runs anti-coagulant clinics. It had changed ownership four weeks previously.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy team members follow written processes for all services to ensure that they are safe. They record mistakes to learn from them and make changes to avoid the same mistakes happening again. Team members use people’s feedback to improve pharmacy services. The pharmacy keeps all the records that it needs to by law and keeps people’s information safe. Team members know how to protect vulnerable people.

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has enough qualified and experienced team members to safely provide its services. It compares numbers and qualifications to how busy the pharmacy is. And then it makes changes to ensure that there are always enough team members. They can share information and raise concerns to keep the pharmacy safe.

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The premises are safe and clean, and suitable for the pharmacy’s services. The pharmacy team members use private rooms for some conversations with people. People cannot overhear these conversations. The pharmacy is secure when closed.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

  The pharmacy helps people to ensure they can all use its services. The pharmacy team provides safe services. Team members give people information to help them use their medicines. And they provide extra written information to people with some 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 the delivery of its services. It looks after this equipment to ensure it works.

Inspection history summary