What is the Quality of Facilities at Mitchison Road Surgery

Positive

"The practice also encouraged its patients to attend national screening programmes for bowel and breast cancer screening with its results for both being comparable with the CCG averages."

Positive

"The practice had appointed three salaried GPs and the practice nurse to improve continuity of care."

Positive

"As a consequence the provider drew up a detailed plan and schedule of clinical and practice meetings; introduced a new cleaning schedule regular onetoone meetings with the cleaner and appointed a corporate infection control nurse with responsibility for carrying out regular infection control audits."

Positive

"• Where a patient’s mental capacity to consent to care or treatment was unclear the GP or nurse assessed the patient’s capacity and recorded the outcome of the assessment."

Positive

"The practice nurse was the infection control lead who received support and mentoring from the corporate nursing team."

Positive

"We saw that plans were put in place for the patients to be contacted to arrange an appointment with the practice nurse or healthcare Are services effective?"

Neutral

"The team included a GP specialist adviser a nurse specialist adviser and an Expert by Experience."

Neutral

"There is a female practice nurse and a female healthcare assistant."

Neutral

"The practice nurse works two days a week with cover on other days from the provider’s bank staff and the healthcare assistant two days."

Neutral

"During our visit we: • Spoke with a range of staff including AT Medics’ GP Director salaried GPs the practice nurse and healthcare assistant a member of the corporate nursing team the senior manager and members of the administrative team."

Neutral

"Since then the provider had been given a five year contract and had appointed three salaried GPs and the practice nurse to work at the practice permanently."

Neutral

"These included appointments with GPs and the practice nurse and healthcare assistant."

Neutral

"Appointments with GPs the practice nurse and healthcare assistant were available throughout the day."

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

"One of the GP partners had lead responsibility for monitoring performance."

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

"They were included with various other performance management data in the provider’s business intelligence monitoring report which was reviewed at monthly corporate management meetings."

Positive

"The premises are off Essex Road in Islington and have good transport connections nearby."

Positive

"The Mitchison Road Surgery is registered with the Care Quality Commission to carry out the following regulated activities Treatment of disease disorder or injury; Family Planning; Maternity and midwifery services; Surgical procedures; and Diagnostic and screening procedures."

Neutral

"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

"• The practice could demonstrate how it ensured rolespecific training and updating for relevant staff for example diabetes and mental health care safeguarding and infection control."

Positive

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

Positive

"It arranged for staff to receive mandatory training in health and safety matters and appointed a named staff member with responsibility for carrying out weekly health and safety inspections."

Positive

"They included a lack of regular staff meetings infection prevention and control concerns and health and safety risk assessments having not taken place for a considerable time prior to the handover of responsibility."

Neutral

"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality and was monitored by the senior manager."

Positive

"They included a lack of regular staff meetings infection prevention and control concerns and health and safety risk assessments having not taken place for a considerable time prior to the handover of responsibility."

Neutral

"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality and was monitored by the senior manager."

Positive

"As a consequence the provider drew up a detailed plan and schedule of clinical and practice meetings; introduced a new cleaning schedule regular onetoone meetings with the cleaner and appointed a corporate infection control nurse with responsibility for carrying out regular infection control audits."

Neutral

"We saw the provider’s corporate decontamination protocol which set out the schedule for cleaning equipment and furniture."