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"Formal meetings were held weekly covering topics on a rolling basis such as palliative care and significant events."
Positive
"The practice held monthly multidisciplinary and palliative care meetings which were attended by the GPs practice nursing staff as well community based staff."
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"The practice also encouraged its patients to attend national screening programmes for bowel and breast cancer screening and data showed that attendance rates were above average for the practice."
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"Where a patient’s mental capacity to consent to care or treatment was unclear the GP or nurse assessed the patient’s capacity and where appropriate recorded the outcome of the assessment."
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
"The practice team is comprised of four GP partners a nurse practitioner three practice nurses and a health care assistant."
Neutral
"These meetings were attended by a GP the practice nurse manager community matron district nurse social worker a member of the therapy team and a community psychiatric nurse."
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"Management monitoring and improving outcomes for people The practice participated in the Quality and Outcomes FrameworkQOF."
Positive
"International Normalised Ratio or INR monitoring is the use of a blood test to check how long it takes for blood to clot to ensure that warfarin is working safely and effectively."
Positive
"• There were procedures for monitoring and managing risks to patients and staff safety."
Positive
"For example the practice was due to commence INR monitoring within the practice which had previously been a community based role undertaken by the community health trust."
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."
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"Areas which specifically needed to be strengthened included undertaking and documenting regular health and safety checks of their areas of the practice and ensuring that all necessary risk assessments were in place."
Positive
"For example in relation to areas such as conducting and documenting regular health and safety checks and risk assessments for manual handling."
Positive
"There was a health and safety policy available with a poster in the reception office."
Positive
"However the practice needed to strengthen its systems for assessing and managing health and safety risks in the building areas they occupied used."
Neutral
"Due to the practice being colocated with another practice a number of risk assessments and health and safety procedures were shared with the colocated practice for example those related to legionella."
Neutral
"The practice had an induction programme for newly appointed clinical and nonclinical members of staff that covered such topics as safeguarding fire safety health and safety and confidentiality."