Types of Facilities

Nurse

Latest Snippet(s)

Positive

"There is one advanced nurse practitioners two nurse practitioners four practice nurses and one health care assistant."

2019-12-18 Snippet(s)

Positive

"There are two advanced nurse practitioners one nurse practitioner four practice nurses and two health care assistants."

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"The nurse proactively encouraged patients to attend reviews which improved uptake."

Positive

"The Advanced Nurse Practitioner ANP and ANP Partner are both community practice teachers who provide mentorship and training for both graduate and post graduate nurses in primary care."

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."

Positive

"• A primary care mental health nurse attended patients’ annual health reviews."

Positive

"The practice had a system for production of Patient Specific Directions to enable Health Care Assistants to administer vaccines after specific training when a GP or nurse was on the premises."

Monitoring

Latest Snippet(s)

Positive

"Our findings We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of: • what we found when we inspected • information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and • information from the provider patients the public and other organisations."

Positive

"• The practice had improved their monitoring and recording of staff vaccinations."

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."

2019-12-18 Snippet(s)

Positive

"We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of: • what we found when we inspected • information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and • information from the provider patients the public and other organisations."

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."

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

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 and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs."

Activities

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"The practice is registered to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures; treatment of disease; maternity and midwifery services; family planning and surgical procedures."

Infection Prevention and Control

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Neutral

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

High Dependency

Latest Snippet(s)

Positive

"• Continue to monitor and take action to improve performance for areas that are not in line with targets or England and local averages including the GP patient survey results patients prescribed dependency forming medicines and the uptake of childhood immunisation and cervical screening."

Neutral

"• The number of patients prescribed dependency forming medicines the uptake of childhood immunisation and cervical screening continued to be outside of the expected range."

Medicines

Latest Snippet(s)

Positive

"• The practice could not demonstrate there was an effective system for the production of Patient Specific Directions an instruction to supply andor administer a medicine written and signed by a prescriber to individually named patients."

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"For example there was an audit of patients who required a premedication echocardiogram an echocardiogram is a scan that looks at the heart before they were prescribed a certain medicine in order to rule out a cardiac condition for which there was a contraindication."

Transport/Minibus Available

2019-12-18 Snippet(s)

Positive

"The practice has good transport links and there is a pharmacy nearby."

Palliative

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"The practice attended multidisciplinary team meetings regularly; this included a monthly palliative care meeting and attendance to a proactive care meeting every eight weeks Proactive care is a team consisting of representatives of community agencies."

Receptionist

Lift

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"• The practice was on two floors and although there was no lift patients who had difficulty in using the stairs were offered appointments on the ground floor."

Clinical Audit

Clinical Supervision

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"This included ongoing support during sessions appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for revalidating GPs."

Health and Safety

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster in the reception office 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."

Cleaning Service

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"There was a clear schedule in place for cleaning clinical equipment and staff also performed unscheduled checks all of which were recorded."

Elderly

2016-04-19 Snippet(s)

Positive

"We observed particularly compassionate care from the reception staff; for example an elderly patient who arrived early for her appointment was settled into a seat and given a drink while she waited."