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Drs Desai, Lowe and Farooqi

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

The Old Court House, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 4BB (020) 8449 2388

Provided and run by:
Drs Desai, Lowe and Farooqi

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Overall inspection

Good

Updated 18 January 2017

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced, desk based review of Drs Desai, Lowe and Farooqi (The Old Courthouse Surgery) on 7 October 2016. We found the practice to be good for providing safe services and it is rated as good overall.

We had previously conducted an announced desk based review of the practice on 26 August 2015. As a result of our findings during that visit, the practice was rated as good for being effective, caring, responsive and well-led, and requires improvement for being safe, which resulted in a rating of good overall. We found that the provider had breached one regulation of the Health and Social Care Act 2008: Regulation 12(1) Safe care and treatment. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection at http://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/1-199720572. The practice wrote to us to tell us what they would do to make improvements and meet the legal requirements.

We undertook this desk based review on 7 October 2016 to check that the practice had followed their plan, and to confirm that they had met the legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to those areas where requirements had not been met previously.

Our key findings on 7 October 2016 were as follows:

  • All staff had now undertaken training in basic life support

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia)

Good

Updated 18 January 2017

The practice is rated as good for the care of p eople experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) . As the practice was found to be providing good services overall, this affected the rating for the population groups we inspect against.