What is the Quality of Facilities at Woodhouse Medical Practice

Positive

"A practice nurse had been supported to attend various courses to support the role including wound care management leg ulcer management and diabetes management."

Positive

"The practice also has a nurse practitioner three practice nurses a health care assistant and an apprentice health care assistant."

Positive

"The practice nurse was the infection prevention and control IPC clinical lead who liaised with the local IPC teams to keep up to date with best practice."

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 in place to alert the practice nurse to any patients who cancelled appointment for their regular depot injections."

Positive

"• The practice had a system in place to alert the practice nurse to any patients who cancelled appointment for their regular antipsychotic injections."

Positive

"In addition to pre bookable appointments that could be booked up to two weeks in advance with the GP and four weeks in advance for the nurse urgent appointments were also available for people that needed them."

Neutral

"The nurse provided telephone advice to staff within the practice and patients could access a monthly clinic."

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

"Responsibility for their ongoing prescription and monitoring can be transferred to GPs once the patient is stabilised on the medicine."

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

"Woodhouse Medical Practice is situated in a purpose built building with car parking available."

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."

Positive

"A practice nurse had been supported to attend various courses to support the role including wound care management leg ulcer management and diabetes management."

Positive

"This included ongoing support onetoone meetings coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for revalidating GPs."

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."

Positive

"The practice nurse was the infection prevention and control IPC clinical lead who liaised with the local IPC teams to keep up to date with best practice."

Neutral

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