Automeds PharmacyGPhC

Pharmacy context

This is a closed pharmacy located in an industrial estate in Ringwood, Hampshire. It provides pharmacy services to care homes across Dorset. The pharmacy is able to provide medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids and as well as the supply of medicines, it provides a New Medicines Service and a delivery service.

Standards by principle

• Principle 1 – Governance

  Standards met

  The pharmacy appropriately manages its risks and has procedures in place to ensure that its team members work safely. They know what they can and cannot do and what they have responsibility for. The pharmacy regularly reviews the safety of its services and team members understand how to protect vulnerable people. They keep the records they need to by law, and they keep people’s private information safe and secure.

• Principle 2 – Staff

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has enough suitably qualified members of staff. The team members keep their skills and knowledge up to date. So, they can deliver safe and effective care. They make appropriate decisions about what is right for the people they care for. And their professional judgement is not affected by targets.

• Principle 3 – Premises

  Standards met

  The pharmacy provides a suitable environment from which to runs its services. The premises are clean and secure, and the recent relocation has provided the pharmacy team with more space to work in. And enough space for expansion.

• Principle 4 – Services

  Standards met

  The pharmacy makes its services easily accessible to people who live in care homes. It makes regular deliveries to those care homes so that people get their medicines on time.  Team members identify people supplied with high‐risk medicines so that they can be given any extra information they may need to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines safely, and so makes sure that the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. The pharmacy responds satisfactorily to drug alerts or product recalls so that people only receive medicines or devices which are safe for them to take.

• Principle 5 – Equipment

  Standards met

  The pharmacy has the equipment and the facilities it needs to provide its services safely. And its team makes sure the equipment it uses is clean.

Inspection history summary