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"• The practice’s uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was in line with local and national averages."
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Positive
"• Weekly visits were carried out by the practice nurse to care homes who all had a named GP for continuity of care."
Positive
"The GP and practice nurse also accommodated home visits for those who had difficulties getting to the practice due to limited local public transport availability."
Neutral
"The team included a GP specialist adviser and practice nurse specialist adviser."
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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 where appropriate recorded the outcome of the assessment."
Positive
"The practice nurse was the infection control clinical lead who liaised with the local infection prevention teams to keep up to date with best practice."
Positive
"The practice nurse had oversight for the management of a number of clinical areas including immunisations cervical cytology and some long term conditions."
Neutral
"It was practice policy to offer a health check with a nurse to all new patients registering with the practice."
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"• Staff encouraged and supported patients to be involved in monitoring and managing their own health for example through social prescribing schemes."
Positive
"• Arrangements were in place for planning and monitoring the number and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs including planning for holidays sickness busy periods and epidemics."
Positive
"People with suspected hypertension were offered ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patients with atrial fibrillation were assessed for stroke risk and treated as appropriate."
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."
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Positive
"Management monitoring and improving outcomes for people The practice participated in the Quality and Outcomes Framework QOF."
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."
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Positive
"The GP and practice nurse also accommodated home visits for those who had difficulties getting to the practice due to limited local public transport availability."
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Positive
"The GP and practice nurse also accommodated home visits for those who had difficulties getting to the practice due to limited local public transport availability."
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Positive
"• Staff were clear on their roles and accountabilities including in respect of safeguarding and infection prevention and control • Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."
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Neutral
"• The practice ensured that end of life care was delivered in a coordinated way which took into account the needs of different patients including those who may be vulnerable because of their circumstances."
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Neutral
"This included one to one meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and revalidation."
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Positive
"This included ongoing support during sessions meetings appraisals clinical supervision and facilitation and support for the revalidation of GPs."
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"• Staff were clear on their roles and accountabilities including in respect of safeguarding and infection prevention and control • Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."
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"• The practice acted on and learned from external safety events as well as patient and medicine safety alerts."
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"The practice determined that inhaler techniques were to become part of patients’ annual review to ensure they were achieving the best results with the medicine they prescribed or that the prescribed medicines were the most effective for the patients."
Positive
"The reviews were to ensure that patients operated good inhaler techniques so that they were not exposed to higher doses of medicine than they needed."
Positive
"Regular medicine audits were carried out with the support of the Are services safe?"
Positive
"For example by promoting the benefits of childhood immunisations with parents or by carrying out opportunistic medicine reviews."
Neutral
"All these patients had a named GP and a structured annual review to check that their health and medicine needs were being met."
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"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster in the reception office."
Neutral
"• The practice had an induction programme for newly appointed nonclinical members of staff that covered such topics as safeguarding fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."