School House Surgery

During an assessment under our new approach

Date of assessment: 3 July 2024 to 11 July 2024. This included a site visit on 4 July 2024. School House Surgery (also known as Allied Medical Practice) is an NHS GP practice located in Brighton in an area of high deprivation. There were approximately 5,000 people registered with the service at the time of our assessment. This was the first assessment for this practice, following their registration under a new provider in December 2022. We assessed all key questions and all quality statements. At this assessment, we rated the practice requires improvement overall. This is because we found 2 breaches of regulation - safe care and treatment, and good governance. Staff did not always assess risks to people's health and mitigate them where identified. The practice did not always ensure medicines and treatments were safe and met people’s needs. The practice did not always have clear governance processes for identifying and managing all risks, issues and performance. However, we recognised there had been improvements to the practice under the management of the new provider, and staff feedback was positive about working at the practice. As some of these changes were recent or yet to be made, the provider was unable to evidence they were embedded. We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to the concerns found at this assessment.

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