Background to this inspection
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10 July 2020
Kenton Clinic is located at 533A Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 0UQ. The surgery has good transport links and there is a pharmacy located nearby.
The practice is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening
procedures, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
Kenton Clinic is situated within the Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 3,400 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering general medical services and is the commonest form of GP contract.
The provider is partnership of a male and a female GP who registered with the CQC in April 2013. The practice employed a practice manager, practice nurse, healthcare assistant and several administration staff. The practice is currently part of a wider network of GP practices.
There are a high number of patients between 15 and 44 years and a smaller number over 65 years of age. The National General Practice Profile states that 56% of the practice population is from an Asian background, 30% from a White background with a further 14% of the population originating from black, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as seven, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 82 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 87 years compared to the national average of 83 years.
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This is a focused desk top review of evidence supplied by Kenton Clinic, for areas within the key question safe. This review was completed on 01 July 2020.
Upon review of the documentation provided by the practice, we found the practice to be good in providing safe services. Overall, the practice is rated as good.
The practice was previously inspected on 12 July 2019. The inspection was a comprehensive
inspection under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (HSCA). At the inspection, the practice was rated overall as ‘good’. However, within the key question safe, areas were identified as ‘requires improvement’, as the practice was not meeting the legislation in respect of providing safe services. The practice was issued a requirement notice under Regulation 12, Safe care and treatment.
For this desk top review, the provider sent us an action plan and a range of documents which demonstrated they are now meeting the requirements of Regulation 12 Safe care and treatment. These improvements have been documented under the safe section of the report. In addition to the breaches of Regulation 12 the practice had implemented a number of ‘should’ actions identified at the July 2019 inspection. In response to these recommendations the practice had;
- Reviewed safeguarding children and vulnerable adult training to ensure it was in line with intercollegiate guidance (updated January 2019).
- Taken action to improve national GP patient survey results to bring in line with local and national averages.
- Initiated some quality improvement activity by carrying out clinical audit.
Working age people (including those recently retired and students)
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People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia)
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People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable
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