What is the Quality of Care at Regents Park Practice

Positive

"• Patients at risk of dementia were identified and offered an assessment to detect possible signs of dementia."

Positive

"• The practice held GP led dedicated monthly mental health and dementia clinics."

Positive

"When dementia was suspected there was an appropriate referral for diagnosis."

Positive

"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."

Positive

"• Consider ways to improve uptake of its cervical breast and bowel cancer screening programmes for the benefit of patients."

Positive

"At this inspection we found: • The practice’s uptake for cervical screening and breast and bowel cancer screening was below the national average."

Positive

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

Neutral

"▪ Some patient groups had cultural objections to bowel cancer screening process."

Positive

"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."

Positive

"• The practice could demonstrate how it identified patients with commonly undiagnosed conditions for example diabetes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD atrial fibrillation and hypertension."

Neutral

"For example the practice had arranged to start offering specialist nurse led diabetes clinics."

Positive

"The practice had reviewed its antibiotic prescribing and taken action to support good antimicrobial stewardship in line with local and national guidance."

Positive

"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."

Positive

"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 practices performance on quality indicators for mental health was in line with local and national averages."

Positive

"• The practice held GP led dedicated monthly mental health and dementia clinics."

Positive

"• Consider placing a second thermometer in each of the vaccine fridges to improve temperature monitoring."

Positive

"The practice also recorded when patients refused the vaccine on behalf of their children."

Positive

"It telephoned nonattenders and doctors offered the vaccine opportunistically when patients attended the surgery for other matters."

Neutral

"However we found that although the two vaccine fridges were new there was only one thermometer for each fridge."

Neutral

"• The practice had systems to inform eligible patients to have the meningitis vaccine for example before attending university for the first time."