What is the Quality of Facilities at Acklam Medical Centre

Positive

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

Positive

"• One of the nurse practitioners was the lead for mental health and learning disabilities and was skilled in assessments."

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

"• One of the nurse practitioners had a special interest in mental health and had additional skills and training to respond to the needs of those patients."

Neutral

"There are two fulltime female nurse practitioners."

Neutral

"One of the nurse practitioners is also a management partner."

Neutral

"• A nurse practitioner who was also a management partner was the lead clinician for safeguarding within the practice."

Neutral

"• A specialist alcohol nurse delivers clinics from the practice premises increasing service accessibility for patients."

Positive

"• 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."

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 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

"• 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 considered the needs of different patients including those who may be vulnerable because of their circumstances."

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."