We carried out a review of the data available to us about Gateacre Medical Centre on 6 July 2023. We have not found evidence that we need to carry out an inspection or reassess our rating at this stage.
This could change at any time if we receive new information. We will continue to monitor data about this service.
If you have concerns about Gateacre Medical Centre, you can give feedback on this service.
We previously carried out a comprehensive inspection of Gateacre Medical Centre on 8 February 2019. We rated the practice Good overall but Requires Improvement for providing safe services because there was a breach of regulations. The breach was:
Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment. The practice had some emergency medicines but not all that was recommended. There was no risk assessment to outline how the practice would manage certain medical emergencies without these medicines. Antibiotic prescribing rates were monitored by the CCG but there was no evidence to demonstrate how the practice managed their antibiotic prescribing rates or high prescribing rates for hypnotic medicines. Blank prescriptions for printers were securely stored but the dispersal and subsequent storage of the blank prescriptions throughout the practice was not monitored. Patient Group Directions for the authorisation of vaccines were signed but in the wrong place for the proper legal authorisation. The system in place to ensure that equipment used by staff had been appropriately calibrated required improvement as this did not include staff’s personal equipment, some of which did not have up to date calibration checks.
We also recommended that the practice should:
At this desk based follow up inspection 2 March 2020, we found that the provider had satisfactorily addressed most of these areas and therefore the practice is now rated as good for providing safe services.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
• information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and
• information from the provider, patients, the public and other organisations.
Although there were no breaches of regulation, the provider should:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Gateacre Medical Centre on 8 February 2019 as part of our inspection programme.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated this practice as good overall but requires improvement for providing safe services and good for all population groups.
We rated the practice as Requires Improvement for providing safe services because:
We rated the practice as good for providing effective, caring, responsive and a well led service because:
There was an example of outstanding practice:
However, the provider must:
The provider should:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGPChief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Gateacre Medical Centre on 19 November 2015.
Overall the practice is rated good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
There were systems in place to mitigate safety risks including analysing significant events and safeguarding.
There were facilities for the disabled, however access would be difficult. There were translation facilities available but no hearing loop.
Staff worked well together as a team and all felt supported to carry out their roles.
There was an example of outstanding practice:-
The practice manager had designed tools to improve systems to manage diabetes care and mental health reviews to ensure patients’ needs were assessed. In addition, the practice manager had designed a system to allow more information about care needs of the elderly population to be available for the GP called me ‘forget me not’. This involved birthday cards with health questionnaires being sent to patients so that information returned could be monitored and actioned where necessary by the GP. These processes had been adopted by other practices in the local area.
However, there were improvements the provider should consider:-
Carry out a risk assessment for the provision of emergency care when clinicians were not on site.
Formulate a business plan, strategy and values for the practice.
Consider arrangements for the nursing team to attend meetings to improve on knowledge of systems within the practice and ensure clinical consistency.
Improve the approach to clinical audit to demonstrate quality improvement for patient outcomes.
Formally record the monitoring of the cleanliness of the premises.
Carry out a formal disability access risk assessment.
Complete the electrical safety inspection for the premises.
Chief Inspector of General Practice