Healthful Pharmacy RothesayGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy on a main street in Rothesay, Isle of Bute. Its main activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions. And it provides medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to help people take their medicines at the right times. The pharmacy provides a medicines’ delivery service and the NHS Pharmacy First service. This was a full reinspection following an inspection in April 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.2, 4.2 and 4.3. Since the last inspection, team members have been enrolled on the appropriate accredited training for their roles. And most team members have read the written procedures. But team members are still not following all documented procedures, including for newly implemented private services. And although private prescription entries have improved, the pharmacy isn’t completing entries for its new private services. Storage of its higher risk medicines has improved, but its expiry date checking process is not robust.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards not all met

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards not all met

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

Inspection history summary