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"We saw that the practices palliative care register was regularly reviewed and discussed as part of the MDT meetings to support the needs of patients and their families."
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"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."
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"They were supported by a clinical team of seven which included a salaried GP an advanced nurse practitioner four practice nurses including a nurse prescriber and a health care assistant."
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"The PPG members described how they supported the practice to recruit an advanced nurse practitioner after making a suggestion following feedback gathered from patients to improve appointment access and availability."
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"• To help with the winter pressures the practice also offered Saturday clinics for appointments with either one of two GPs on duty or the advanced nurse practitioner."
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"The clinical team includes three female GP partners and a female salaried GP an advanced nurse practitioner four practice nurses including a nurse prescriber and a health care assistant."
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"To help with the winter pressures the practice also offers Saturday clinics for appointments with either one of two GPs on duty or the advanced nurse practitioner."
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"The practice nurse operated an effective failsafe system for ensuring that test results had been received for every sample sent by the practice."
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"We saw that a schedule had been developed to support this; this included fortnightly management meetings six weekly clinical meetings for all practice clinicians monthly nurse meetings and six weekly all staff meetings."
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"• The practice had an infection control team which consisted of a practice nurse and a GP partner; these Are services safe?"
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"Practice nurses were able to network with local nurses by attending quarterly nurse education and training updates facilitated by the CCG."
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"• Reviewed information from CQC intelligent monitoring systems."
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"We also noted that the practice followed an effective process for monitoring and following up on any uncollected prescriptions."
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"Monitoring risks to patients 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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"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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"The practice maximised use of this system to aid monitoring and recall systems and to reduce prescription wastage."
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"The practice was monitoring use of the framework during monthly clinical meetings and we saw minutes of meetings that confirmed this."
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"• The practice operated a programme of regular staff meetings and staff were actively engaged in activities to monitor and improve quality and patient outcomes."
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"Audits were discussed during regular staff meetings and staff engaged in activities to monitor and improve quality and patient outcomes."
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"There was a health and safety policy and the practice had risk assessments in place to monitor safety of the premises fire risk and risks associated with infection control such as the control of substances hazardous to health and legionella."
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"• The practice had a comprehensive induction programme for newly appointed members of staff that covered such topics as safeguarding infection control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."
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"We were also able to see evidence of action taken to improve for example staff were ensuring that cleaning of medical equipment was recorded for all equipment."
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"Furthermore we saw evidence to support this during our inspection as there were records in place to reflect the cleaning of all medical equipment."
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"We saw that practice cleaning specifications and completed cleaning records were in place."
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"• The practice was also supporting a local initiative to bring hospital specialists in to the community and therefore began inviting elderly care physicians to the monthly multidisciplinary team MDT meetings."
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"The practice was also supporting a local initiative to bring hospital specialists in to the community and therefore began inviting consultant psychiatrists and elderly care physicians to the monthly MDT meetings."
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"For example we saw records to confirm that the practice had checked their emergency medicines in relation to a specific medicine recall."
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"Exception reporting is used to ensure that practices are not penalised where for example patients do not attend for review or where a medicine cannot be prescribed due to a contraindication or sideeffect."
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"This is also known as patient specific direction PSD PSDs are a written instruction from a qualified and registered prescriber for a medicine to be supplied or administered to a named patient after the prescriber has assessed the patient on an individual basis."