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Positive
"• The practice’s uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was above the national average."
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Positive
"The practice had engaged with another organisation to provide a nurse specialising in respiratory conditions to undertake reviews for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder COPD until one of their nurses had completed training in this area."
Neutral
"The nursing team includes one nurse practitioner and four practice nurses who were all female."
Neutral
"The GP and practice nurse also accommodated home visits for those who had difficulties getting to the practice."
Neutral
"• The practice accommodated the community psychiatrist nurse to undertake a weekly clinic."
2016-07-29 Snippet(s)
Positive
"The nurse practitioner was the infection control clinical lead who liaised with the local infection prevention teams to keep up to date with best practice."
Neutral
"The nursing team includes one nurse practitioner and four practice nurses who were all female."
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Positive
"• Staff encouraged and supported patients to be involved in monitoring and managing their own health for example through social prescribing schemes."
Positive
"• Arrangements were in place for planning and monitoring the number and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs including planning for holidays sickness busy periods and epidemics."
Positive
"People with suspected hypertension were offered ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patients with atrial fibrillation were assessed for stroke risk and treated as appropriate."
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."
2016-09-20 Snippet(s)
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."
2016-07-29 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
"Information about patients’ outcomes was used to make improvements such as: changing the way patients were recalled for reviews to increase uptake to ensure effective monitoring of patients with chronic diseases."
Positive
"• There were procedures in place for monitoring and managing risks to patient and staff safety."
Positive
"For example recent action taken as a result included the close monitoring of patients taking medicines for gout a type of arthritis and ensuring that those patients had received regular blood tests."
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."
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Positive
"• Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."
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Positive
"• Weekly multidisciplinary meetings were held with community staff such as the district nurses to review patients on end of life care and those who were frail."
Neutral
"• The practice ensured that end of life care was delivered in a coordinated way which took into account the needs of different patients including those who may be vulnerable because of their circumstances."
Neutral
"This included patients on end of life care patients at risk of developing a longterm condition and carers."
2016-07-29 Snippet(s)
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."
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Neutral
"This included one to one meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and revalidation."
2016-07-29 Snippet(s)
Positive
"This included ongoing support onetoone meetings coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for revalidating GPs."
2016-07-29 Snippet(s)
Neutral
"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."
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Positive
"• The practice acted on and learned from external safety events as well as patient and medicine safety alerts."
2016-07-29 Snippet(s)
Positive
"This contributed to effective medicine reviews for patients with long term conditions."
Neutral
"PSDs are written instructions from a qualified and registered prescriber for a medicine including the dose route and frequency or appliance to be supplied or administered to a named patient after the prescriber has assessed the patient on an individual basis."
2016-07-29 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."