What is the Quality of Care at Dr P A A Wood and Partners

Positive

"• The practice had established excellent collaborative working relationships with a local specialist unit for patients with dementia and other homes with a high proportion of patients with dementia."

Positive

"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as good for the care of people experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia."

Neutral

"• The practice regularly worked with multidisciplinary teams in the case management of patients experiencing poor mental health including those with dementia and carried out advance care planning for patients with dementia."

Positive

"• The practice offered longer appointments for patients with a learning disability and an annual health review with a GP who had a special interest in learning disability."

Neutral

"The practice demonstrated how they encouraged uptake of the screening programme by using information in different languages and for those with a learning disability and they ensured a female sample taker was available."

Positive

"The practice also encouraged its patients to attend national screening programmes for breast cancer screening."

Positive

"The practice had identified diabetes management as an area for improvement and had plans for a dedicated practice nurse who had received specialist training to make home visits to housebound patients who had diabetes."

Positive

"Patients are referred to see a consultant for diabetes musculoskeletal problems and gynaecology problems."

Positive

"• There was rapid direct access to specialist nurse and consultant diabetes services for patients with complex care needs."

Positive

"• The practice utilised a community based provider that enabled patients to be seen by a consultant for gynaecology musculoskeletal problems and diabetes in the community instead of at hospital within three weeks of referral."

Positive

"They had also recently recruited an additional practice nurse who was attending training in long term conditions including diabetes to increase the capacity to monitor patients with diabetes."

Neutral

"For example; The practice had worked with four other practices in the locality to implement and fund a community based service that enabled direct referrals for patients with gynaecology musculoskeletal problems and diabetes to receive assessment and care by a consultant in their community instead of travelling to hospital."

Neutral

"• The practice had enabled direct referrals for gynaecology musculoskeletal problems and complex diabetes and receive care in their community instead of travelling to hospital."

Positive

"• The practice offered longer appointments for patients with a learning disability and an annual health review with a GP who had a special interest in learning disability."

Neutral

"The practice demonstrated how they encouraged uptake of the screening programme by using information in different languages and for those with a learning disability and they ensured a female sample taker was available."

Positive

"• Staff had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and dementia."

Positive

"The population groups are: · Older people · People with longterm conditions · Families children and young people · Working age people including those recently retired and students · People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable · People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia."

Positive

"• They held a register of patients who had a mental health problem and offered them an annual health review."

Positive

"• The practice worked closely with adult and older adult psychiatry services and were able to refer patients with mental health problems to psychological therapy services • They had told patients experiencing poor mental health about how to access various support groups and voluntary organisations."

Positive

"These meetings included a GP care coordinator community health team representatives community matron district nurse health visitor social work team and the community mental health team where required."

Positive

"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as good for the care of people experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia."

Neutral

"The teams included midwives health visitors the community matron district nurses and the mental health team."

Neutral

"• The practice regularly worked with multidisciplinary teams in the case management of patients experiencing poor mental health including those with dementia and carried out advance care planning for patients with dementia."