We carried out a review of the data available to us about Stonehill 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.
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We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Stonehill Medical Centre on 9 September 2016. The overall rating for the practice was good, with a rating of requires improvement in the safe domain. The full comprehensive report on the September 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Stonehill Medical Centre on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 23 August 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach in regulation that we identified in our previous inspection on 9 September 2016. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements.
Overall the practice remains rated as good and the safe domain is now rated as good.
Our key findings were as follows:
All clinical rooms were locked with a keypad lock to prevent entry when unoccupied.
All patient information was secure.
All medicines and patient samples were kept securely.
Sharps bins were not over-filled.
Policies were in place regarding the above and regular checks were carried out to ensure compliance with the policies.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Stonehill Medical Centre on 9 September 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
We saw areas of outstanding practice:
The practice held a clinical meeting at 8.30am each day and the community nurse also attended this. Specific patient issues such as patients receiving end of life care were discussed to ensure all relevant staff had up to date information. This meant clinicians in the multi-disciplinary team could discuss the best treatment for patients on an ongoing basis. Referrals were also discussed as a team to ensure they were appropriate and the relevant information was recorded in the referral letter. This was used as a form of ongoing quality assurance.
The practice had devised a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) protocol. Where patients from certain named countries presented staff were prompted to ask discrete questions to identify any risks.
The area where the provider must make improvement is:
The practice must ensure they assess, monitor, manage and mitigate risks to the health and safety of service users. Specifically they must ensure medicines, patient samples and other unsafe items are not kept in unoccupied unlocked rooms.
Chief Inspector of General Practice