Types of Facilities

Nurse

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

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

"• The practice ran a midwife led antenatal clinic a GP led postnatal and health surveillance clinic and a nurse led child immunisation clinic one day every week; however patients can book outside of these hours as required."

Neutral

"The practice has access to four doctors’ consultation rooms and two nurse consultation rooms on the ground floor."

Monitoring

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Positive

"Their arrangements for monitoring patients with diabetes were not effective and they had not undertaken any completed cycle audits where changes made were implemented and monitored."

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

"• Review the arrangements for the monitoring of diabetes for patients."

2016-05-05 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 some 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

"• Review the arrangements for the monitoring of diabetes for patients."

Neutral

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

Cleaning Service

Latest Snippet(s)

Positive

"We found that patient records were securely stored with no access by the public and that cleaning staff had signed confidentiality agreements."

Receptionist

Activities

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"The practice is registered as a partnership with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures maternity and midwifery services family planning surgical procedures and treatment of disease disorder or injury."

Wheelchair Access

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"All patient facilities are wheelchair accessible."

End of Life Care

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"• The practice performed advanced care planning and end of life care plans and supported patients who have expressed a wish to die in their own home."

Clinical Audit

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"• Another clinical audit was undertaken to ascertain the number of patients with diabetes who were prescribed a medicine to control diabetes that had a sideeffect of reducing absorption of a particular vitamin."

Clinical Supervision

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Positive

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

Health and Safety

2016-05-05 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."

Positive

"It covered topics such as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality and basic life support."

Infection Prevention and Control

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"It covered topics such as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality and basic life support."

Medicines

2016-05-05 Snippet(s)

Positive

"• Another clinical audit was undertaken to ascertain the number of patients with diabetes who were prescribed a medicine to control diabetes that had a sideeffect of reducing absorption of a particular vitamin."

Positive

"All the patients who were prescribed this medicine and had had their bloods tested to ascertain levels of this particular vitamin were checked."