What is the Quality of Facilities at The Birches Medical Practice

Positive

"There are two nurse practitioners two practice nurses two health care assistants and an acute care practitioner."

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

"• Where a patient’s mental capacity to consent to care or treatment was unclear the GP or practice nurse assessed the patient’s capacity."

Positive

"The practice had a system for production of Patient Specific Directions to enable Health Care Assistants to administer vaccinations after specific training when a doctor or nurse were on the premises."

Positive

"Management monitoring and improving outcomes for people The practice used the information collected for the Quality and Outcomes Framework QOF and performance against national screening programmes to monitor outcomes for patients."

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."

Positive

"This included ongoing support during sessions onetoone meetings appraisals coaching and mentoring clinical supervision and facilitation and support for revalidating GPs."

Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster in the reception office which identified local health and safety Are services safe?"

Neutral

"It covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."

Neutral

"It covered such topics as safeguarding infection prevention and control fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."