What is the Quality of Facilities at Acorn Medical Practice

Positive

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

Positive

"The nursing team consists of a practice nurse health care assistant and an advanced nurse practitioner will be joining the practice in August."

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."

Positive

"The practice were becoming a training practice and a registrar and advanced nurse practitioner were joining the practice shortly."

Neutral

"The team included a GP specialist adviser and a practice nurse specialist adviser."

Positive

"• Staff encouraged and supported patients to be involved in monitoring and managing their own health for example through social prescribing schemes where available."

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."

Positive

"We saw clinicians used the practice protocol for the monitoring of high risk medicines to keep patients safe."

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."

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

"On the day of the inspection the lift was out of order; this was repaired during the day."

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."

Positive

"Regulated activities include Diagnostic and screening procedures Family Planning Maternity and midwifery services Surgical procedures and Treatment of disease disorder or injury."

Positive

"• Practice leaders had established policies procedures and activities to ensure safety and assured themselves that they were operating as intended."

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."

Positive

"• We saw clinical audit had a positive impact on quality of care and outcomes for patients."

Neutral

"This included one to one meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and revalidation."

Positive

"• The practice acted on and learned from external safety events as well as patient and medicine safety alerts."