What is the Quality of Facilities at Bowery Medical Centre

Positive

"There is an advanced nurse clinician a practice nurse and an assistant nurse practitioner."

Positive

"• The practice used Telehealth a system whereby patients could submit their own monitoring results from home to help to improve treatment and to support patients’ independence."

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 and busy periods."

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."

Neutral

"• Patients on blood thinning medicines had their blood INR monitoring performed in house allowing the results to be dealt with in a timely manner and reducing the need for the patient to go to hospital."

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."

Positive

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