Latest Snippet(s)
Positive
"• Following our previous inspection responsibility for emergency equipment checks was delegated to the practice manager until a full time nurse was employed."
Neutral
"The practice has a vacancy for a full time practice nurse position employing the services of a local nursing agency to provide full time equivalent nursing services."
Neutral
"We saw evidence that emergency equipment including expiry dates was checked appropriately and regularly by the practice manager and subsequently the practice nurse and that these checks were recorded and reviewed."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
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 explained that since the practice nurse had left the responsibility for checking emergency equipment had not been passed on to another member of staff."
Positive
"On the day of the inspection the practice replaced the out of date equipment and passed responsibility to the practice manager to check emergency equipment until a nurse had been recruited and appointed."
Neutral
"The practice has a vacancy for a full time practice nurse position employing the services of a local nursing agency to provide full time equivalent nursing services."
Neutral
"Patients requesting a telephone consultation with a GP or nurse had a ring back from either their own GP a nurse or the duty GP usually within an hour but always within the same appointment session either morning or afternoon."
Latest Snippet(s)
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."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
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
"• 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."
Latest Snippet(s)
Positive
"The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission CQC to provide the regulated activities of surgical procedures treatment of disease disorder or injury maternity and midwifery services family planning and diagnostic and screening procedures."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Positive
"The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission CQC to provide the regulated activities of surgical procedures treatment of disease disorder or injury maternity and midwifery services family planning and diagnostic and screening procedures."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Positive
"The practice also encouraged its patients to attend national screening programmes for bowel and breast cancer screening with performance in this area in line with local and national averages."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Neutral
"• The practice website was able to be translated into a full range of languages using an internet based service."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
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."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Positive
"This included ongoing support onetoone meetings coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for revalidating GPs."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
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."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Neutral
"This covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."
2017-03-01 Snippet(s)
Positive
"• All these patients had a named GP and a structured annual review of their health medicine and social care needs managed under the clinical commissioning group CCG planning all care together PACT scheme."
Neutral
"PSDs are written instructions from a qualified and registered prescriber for a medicine including the dose route and frequency or appliance to be supplied or administered to a named patient after the prescriber has assessed the patient on an individual basis."