Types of Facilities

Palliative

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Positive

"Some of these patients were the subject of multidisciplinary team and palliative care."

Cancer Screening Equipment

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Positive

"• The practice’s uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was above the England average."

Nurse

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Positive

"The practice is also supported by two nurse practitioners one qualified and one nearing completion of their advanced training four nurses and a health care assistant."

Positive

"There were nurse led clinics for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a type of lung disease."

Positive

"• The practice held joint GP and nurse clinics for heart disease and diabetes."

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Positive

"The practice is also supported by one nurse practitioner four nurses and a health care assistant."

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

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

Monitoring

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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."

Positive

"The practice runs a number of services for its patients including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD clinics child immunisation diabetes clinics cardiac care including ECGs and seven day ECG monitoring new patient checks and travel health clinics."

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."

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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

"The practice runs a number of services for its patients including asthma and COPD clinics child immunisation diabetes clinics Cardiac Care including ECGs and seven day ECG monitoring new patient checks and travel health clinics."

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."

Activities

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Positive

"• Staff were clear on their roles and accountabilities including in respect of safeguarding and infection prevention and control • Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."

End of Life Care

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Positive

"• The practice ran monthly multidisciplinary team meetings attended by community nurses social services end of life care staff psychiatric nurses and housing representatives."

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."

Clinical Supervision

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Neutral

"This included one to one meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and revalidation."

Infection Prevention and Control

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Positive

"• Staff were clear on their roles and accountabilities including in respect of safeguarding and infection prevention and control • Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."

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Neutral

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

Medicines

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Positive

"• The practice acted on and learned from external safety events as well as patient and medicine safety alerts."

Receptionist

Transport/Minibus Available

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Positive

"• The practice offered appointments at village halls in two rural villages to improve access to those with limited transport options."

Health and Safety

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Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available."

Neutral

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