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"This involved eight stations covering various prescribing areas including depression contraception and pre diabetes."
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"• Patients at risk of dementia were identified and offered an assessment to detect possible signs of dementia."
Positive
"When dementia was suspected there was an appropriate referral for diagnosis."
Neutral
"• All patients the practice’s mental health and dementia patients were invited for physical health reviews and recall via phone text message and letter where required due to difficulties in arranging appointments."
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Positive
"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as inadequate for safe and requires improvement for caring and wellled key questions leading to the practice being rated as requires improvement overall."
Positive
"• The practice specifically considered the physical health needs of patients with poor mental health and dementia by offering them annual health reviews."
Positive
"• Patients at risk of dementia were identified and offered an assessment."
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"• The practice’s uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was below the national average."
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"• The practice took account of the needs and preferences of patients with lifelimiting conditions including patients with a condition other than cancer and patients living with dementia."
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"• The practice supported national priorities and initiatives to improve the population’s health for example increasing the uptake of flu and shingles immunisations completing all eight care processes for patients with diabetes and tackling obesity."
Positive
"• The practice had arrangements to identify and review the treatment of newly pregnant women on longterm medicines and with long term conditions like diabetes and epilepsy."
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"As a result of the practice’s efforts over two hundred patients were coded for long term conditions including chronic kidney disease diabetes and those with learning difficulties."
Neutral
"The practice provided preconception advice to pregnant women with diabetes and epilepsy."
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"• The practice supported national priorities and initiatives to improve the population’s health for example increasing the uptake of flu and shingles immunisations completing all eight care processes for patients with diabetes and tackling obesity."
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"The practice had reviewed its antibiotic prescribing and taken action to support good antimicrobial stewardship in line with local and national guidance."
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"• The practice had also completed the first cycle of an audit initiated by the CCG related to antibiotic prescribing in urinary tract infections."
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"• The practice supported national priorities and initiatives to improve the population’s health for example increasing the uptake of flu and shingles immunisations completing all eight care processes for patients with diabetes and tackling obesity."
Positive
"The practice provided carers with annual healthchecks and offered flu immunisations."
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"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • Staff interviewed had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and those patients living with dementia."
Positive
"• The practice specifically considered the physical health needs of patients with poor mental health and those living with dementia."
Neutral
"• All patients the practice’s mental health and dementia patients were invited for physical health reviews and recall via phone text message and letter where required due to difficulties in arranging appointments."
2017-11-22 Snippet(s)
Positive
"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as inadequate for safe and requires improvement for caring and wellled key questions leading to the practice being rated as requires improvement overall."
Positive
"• Staff interviewed had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and dementia."
Positive
"• The practice specifically considered the physical health needs of patients with poor mental health and dementia by offering them annual health reviews."
Neutral
"• The practice had a system for monitoring repeat prescribing for patients receiving medicines for mental health needs."
Neutral
"• The practice had information available for patients experiencing poor mental health about how they could access various support groups and voluntary organisations."
Neutral
"On the first cycle the practice found that this standard had not been met; for example four out of the six reviews did not include an assessment of the patient’s mental health and none including an assessment of their hearing."
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"For example we found that vaccine fridge temperatures had gone out of range and no action had been taken to ensure the vaccines remained safe to use."
Positive
"• At our last inspection we found that the systems for reviewing and investigating when things went wrong were lacking as there was not always clear evidence of learning from significant events and no event had been raised when vaccine fridge temperatures had gone out of range."
Neutral
"• At the last inspection we found that the practice had not taken action when vaccine fridge temperatures had gone out of range."
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"The practice had clear and effective policies and procedures to govern activity in most respects; however the practice were not following their policy for monitoring vaccine fridge temperatures and the safeguarding policies did not contain accurate information regarding the practice leads."
Positive
"The arrangements for managing medicines did not always ensure that patients were kept safe particularly in respect of monitoring vaccine fridge temperatures."
Positive
"The practice had contacted the vaccine manufacturers and confirmed that the vaccines would still be safe to use though some were disposed of as a precautionary measure."
Positive
"For example vaccine fridge temperatures were not being monitored in accordance with the practice policy and the practice safeguarding policy was did not accurately reflect the leadership structure within the practice."
Neutral
"• There were some concerns around the systems used to monitor vaccine fridge temperatures."
Neutral
"• The practice policy stated that vaccine fridge temperature checks should be undertaken twice daily though checks were not always done twice a day."
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"For example the practice had undertaken audits of patients prescribed warfarin cervical screening and prescribing of antibiotics for urinary tract infections."
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Positive
"• The practice had also completed the first cycle of an audit initiated by the CCG related to antibiotic prescribing in urinary tract infections."
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"• The practice offered longer appointments for patients with a learning disability and had undertaken an exercise to improve the quality of annual reviews offered to learning disabled patients from the standard provided by the previous provider."
Positive
"A second audit was undertaken of all patients on the practice’s learning disability register who had received a review and found that the practice had complied with all standards in all cases."
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Positive
"As a result of the practice’s efforts over two hundred patients were coded for long term conditions including chronic kidney disease diabetes and those with learning difficulties."
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Positive
"• The practice offered longer appointments for patients with a learning disability and had undertaken an exercise to improve the quality of annual reviews offered to learning disabled patients from the standard provided by the previous provider."
Positive
"A second audit was undertaken of all patients on the practice’s learning disability register who had received a review and found that the practice had complied with all standards in all cases."