What is the Quality of Facilities at Bearwood Medical Centre

Positive

"The team are supported by a practice manager a nurse practitioner four practice nurses a health care assistant and additional administration staff."

Positive

"The practice nurse was the infection control clinical lead who liaised with the local infection prevention teams to keep up to date with best practice."

Positive

"• Where a patient’s mental capacity to consent to care or treatment was unclear the GP or practice nurse assessed the patient’s capacity and recorded the outcome of the assessment."

Neutral

"For example the practice had responded to the feedback of patient’s satisfaction of access to appointments by employing a nurse practitioner to provide on the day appointments for patients with acute medical needs."

Neutral

"Additionally a salaried GP was employed for an additional five sessions per week and a practice nurse provided appointments outside working hours."

Positive

"Management monitoring and improving outcomes for people The practice used the information collected for the Quality and Outcomes Framework QOF and performance against national screening programmes to monitor outcomes for patients."

Positive

"• There were procedures in place for monitoring and managing risks to patient and staff safety."

Neutral

"It is based on a combination of what we found when we inspected information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and information given to us from the provider patients the public and other organisations."

Neutral

"• Arrangements were in place for planning and monitoring the number of staff and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs."

Neutral

"For example: • Patients receiving end of life care carers those at risk of developing a longterm condition and those requiring advice on their diet smoking and alcohol cessation and patients were signposted to the relevant service."

Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster by the reception desk which identified local health and safety representatives."

Neutral

"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."

Neutral

"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."