Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Ross and Partners (Pudsey Health Centre) 12 July 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
- There was an open and transparent approach to safety and an effective system in place for reporting and recording significant events.
- Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
- Staff assessed patients’ needs and delivered care in line with current evidence based guidance. Staff had been trained to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective care and treatment.
- Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
- Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand. Improvements were made to the quality of care as a result of complaints and concerns.
- Patients said they found it easy to make an appointment with a GP, although not necessarily the GP of their choice. Urgent appointments were available to pre-book or on the same day. Each day one GP on call was able to accommodate urgent and unexpected patient need, and to offer non urgent same day appointments.
- The practice had facilities which were appropriate to treat patients and meet their needs.
- There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management and the practice manager. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
- The provider was aware of and complied with the requirements of the duty of candour.
We identified one area of outstanding practice:
There are areas where the provider should make improvement. The practice should:
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Develop a system to update patient records following all multidisciplinary meetings. During the inspection the practice told us they had plans in place to carry this out.
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Consider means of masking patient:clinician conversations being overheard from one of the clinical rooms.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice