What is the Quality of Facilities at Stafford Health and Wellbeing

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 and recorded the outcome of the assessment."

Neutral

"The practice nurse offered annual visits to elderly patients who were housebound who had multiple long term conditions."

Neutral

"The practice was looking forward to welcoming their first student nurse to the practice shortly after the inspection."

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

"The practice also did not have a consistent system for checking and evidencing that monitoring for patients who take long term medicines on a shared care basis had been provided before the medicines were issued."

Positive

"We saw that patients who took medicines that required close monitoring for side effects had their care and treatment shared between the practice and hospital."

Positive

"The system for ensuring patients had received the necessary monitoring before prescribing of the medicine differed between clinicians."

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

"The hospital organised assessment and monitoring of the condition and the practice prescribed the medicines required."

Neutral

"• Arrangements were in place for planning and monitoring the number of staff and mix of staff needed to meet patients’ needs."

Neutral

"Car parking including disabled parking is available at this practice."

Positive

"There was a health and safety policy available."

Neutral

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

Neutral

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

Neutral

"The practice nurse offered annual visits to elderly patients who were housebound who had multiple long term conditions."

Neutral

"• Staff had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and dementia and also patients who had alcohol dependency and who suffered from substance abuse."

Positive

"The system for ensuring patients had received the necessary monitoring before prescribing of the medicine differed between clinicians."

Neutral

"However there was a possibility that patients may still receive the medicine if they had not received the required monitoring."