What is the Quality of Facilities at Avenham Surgery

Positive

"• The practice told us that historically patient uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was below the national average."

Positive

"An advanced nurse practitioner a practice nurse and a healthcare assistant who also acts as the practice medicines coordinator support the GPs."

Positive

"• Staff encouraged and supported patients to be involved in monitoring and managing their own health for example through social prescribing schemes such as the national diabetic selfmanagement scheme."

Positive

"• The practice had arrangements for adults with newly diagnosed cardiovascular disease including the offer of highintensity statins for secondary prevention 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

"• 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."

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

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

Neutral

"• The practice ensured 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

"This included an induction process onetoone meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and support for revalidation."

Positive

"• There was an effective system to manage infection prevention and control IPC."

Positive

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