Background to this inspection
Updated
13 July 2018
Cedar Park Healthcare provides NHS funded services under the primary care surgical scheme for a range of procedures including hernia, vasectomy, skin lesions, haemorrhoid banding, joint injections, carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger surgery for patients over the age of 18 and has been operating since May 2015.
The service is provided by a team of staff which includes a GP lead clinician, a registered manager, and part-time nurses and healthcare assistants. They are supported by part-time administration and housekeeping staff. Surgery is carried out by seven doctors who have been approved by the commissioners of the service and who work at the service on a sessional /case basis.
The service is commissioned by Lincolnshire West Clinical Commissioning Group on behalf of four Lincolnshire CCGs. Clinics are held as demand requires, at a high-quality purpose-built facility located at Boundary Lane, South Hykeham LN6 9NQ.
The provider also undertakes the regulated activities from;
Grantham Hospital, Manthorpe Road, Grantham NG31 8DG and Skegness Hospital, Dorothy Avenue, Skegness, PE25 2BS. Neither of these sites were visited as part of the inspection.
Patients are referred into this service by their registered GP via an electronic choose & book system or by a GP referral letter.
Updated
13 July 2018
We carried out an announced focused inspection at Cedar Park Healthcare on 31 May 2018 to ask the service the following key questions; are services safe, effective and well-led? This was a result of our previous inspection on 7 March 2018 when we found that the service was not providing safe, effective and well-led care. We issued the provider with a Warning Notice and required them to take action.
Our findings at this inspection on 31 May 2018 were:
Are services safe?
We found that this service was providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations.
Are services effective?
We found that this service was providing effective care in accordance with the relevant regulations
Are services well-led?
We found that this service was providing well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the service was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
CQC inspected the service on 7 March 2018 and asked the provider to make improvements. We checked these at this inspection and found they had been resolved.
Mr Oluropo Ebenezer Ojo is registered to provide the regulated activities of surgical procedures and treatment of disease disorder or injury.
The provider employs a registered manager. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.
Cedar Park Healthcare provides NHS funded services under the primary care surgical scheme for a range of minor surgery procedures for patients over the age of 18.