We carried out a review of the data available to us about Groombridge and Hartfield Medical Group 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 Groombridge and Hartfield Medical Group on 8 June 2016. The overall rating for the practice was requires improvement. The full comprehensive report on the June 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Groombridge and Hartfield Medical Group on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Following this inspection the practice sent to us an action plan detailing what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the following:
Ensuring that medicines management systems are reviewed to protect patients against the risk of unsafe care and treatment.
Ensuring that all safety assessments are undertaken and reviewed as required.
Ensuring that appropriate training for staff is completed and monitored. This includes training in respect of fire safety.
Additionally we had found that:
The provider needed to continue in actively identifying patients that have caring responsibilities within the patient list.
This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 8 February 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches in regulations that we identified in our previous inspection. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.
Our key findings were as follows:
The provider had reviewed all aspects of medicines management and devised new standard operating procedures which all appropriate staff had received a copy of and signed to acknowledge this.
The provider had undertaken the assessments required for electrical installation and fire risk and acted upon the advice within these.
The provider had ensured all staff had undertaken fire training as required.
The provider had increased the number of carers identified within their list from 40 carers to 60 carers. An increase of 50%.
Overall the practice is now rated as good.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Groombridge and Hartfield Medical Group on 8 June 2016. Overall the practice is rated as requires improvement.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
We saw one area of outstanding practice:
The two partner GPs disclosed their personal contact details to all palliative care patients so as to ensure that these patients could be supported fully and to ensure they received the best care available.
The areas where the provider must make improvement are:
Ensure that medicines management systems are reviewed to protect patients against the risk of unsafe care and treatment.
To ensure that all safety assessments are undertaken and reviewed as required.
To ensure that appropriate training for staff is completed and monitored. This includes training in respect of fire safety.
The area where the provider should make improvements is:
• To actively identify patients that have caring responsibilities within the patient list.
Chief Inspector of General Practice