What is the Quality of Facilities at Yorkshire Street Medical Centre

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 where appropriate recorded the outcome of the assessment."

Positive

"• The practice worked closely with two specialist nurse practitioners who conducted ward rounds in all local care homes and liaised daily with GPs where there were concerns."

Neutral

"• A newly appointed nurse completed training in family planning as part of appraisal and continuous professional development planning."

Neutral

"One practice nurse had recently taken over as the infection prevention and control clinical IPC lead and had had level one and two IPC training though not the higher level training for IPC leads."

Neutral

"The practice had seen a turnover of GPs in the previous year but had now recruited and was actively recruiting a nurse as well as consulting with reception staff to decide on succession arrangements for staff who would retire in the near future."

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

"The practice had referred patients for exercise on prescription for many years and a number of patients gave us examples of being referred to the gym and other activities by the practice following health checks."

Positive

"This included ongoing support during sessions onetoone meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for the revalidation of doctors."

Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster in the staff room."

Neutral

"• Develop infection prevention and control procedures to incorporate relevant blood spill guidance and sample handling."

Neutral

"One practice nurse had recently taken over as the infection prevention and control clinical IPC lead and had had level one and two IPC training though not the higher level training for IPC leads."

Neutral

"We did note that guidance on cleaning bodily fluid spills was not kept with the spill kits and some specimen samples were handed to reception staff who were not trained in specimen handling."