Types of Facilities

Chairs

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Neutral

"One of the partners was the vice chair of the local clinical commissioning group."

Cancer Screening Equipment

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Positive

"The practice had introduced a bowel cancer screening do not attend protocol to follow these patients up."

Nurse

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Positive

"• Patient group directions PGDs had been adopted by the practice to allow the practice nurse to administer medicines in line with legislation."

Neutral

"On the day of the inspection routine appointments could be booked with a GP either male or female or a nurse within the same week at both sites."

Receptionist

Monitoring

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Positive

"The practice had up to date fire risk assessments for both sites and carried out regular monitoring checks and periodic fire drills including a simulated evacuation."

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 and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs."

Lift

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Neutral

"There was a lift at the main practice site."

Activities

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Positive

"Staff were engaged in activities to monitor and improve quality and outcomes."

Clinical Audit

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Positive

"• Increase its use of clinical audit as a driver for quality improvement within the practice."

Positive

"However the practice could do more to embed clinical audit as a driver for quality improvement."

Positive

"We found there was scope to increase the use of clinical audit as a tool for improvement within the practice."

Neutral

"• The practice could demonstrate that it was meeting its targets and used clinical audit to monitor some aspects of its performance."

Health and Safety

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Positive

"The practice had identified health and safety leads among the staff team."

Neutral

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

Infection Prevention and Control

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Neutral

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