What is the Quality of Facilities at Fairmore Medical Practice

Positive

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

Positive

"They are supported by an operational manager who also works across the provider’s other sites a practice nurse a health care assistant and an administration team including secretaries and reception staff."

Neutral

"At the time of inspection the provider was currently recruiting for additional clinical both GP and practice nurse and non clinical staff."

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."

Positive

"The provider had introduced new protocols since taking over the practice for the management and monitoring of patients receiving high risk medications to ensure prescribing was 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."

Neutral

"The site includes ample parking including disabled spaces as well as ramped access for those patients with mobility difficulties."

Positive

"The regulated activities of surgical procedures family planning treatment of disease disorder or injury diagnostic and screening procedures and maternity and midwifery services are provided from the practice by the registered provider Padiham Group Practice."

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."

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."