Chequers Health Group Ltd

Updated 22 April 2022

Chequers Health Group Limited is an independent healthcare organisation established to offer a range of private services and services delivered on behalf of the NHS, these include an audiology service, diagnostic service and laboratory testing, fertility and family planning service, and musculoskeletal services and surgical procedures including non-therapeutic circumcisions.

At the time of the inspection the service was still in its infancy and was only providing non-therapeutic circumcisions. The service is led by GPs and consultants.

Services were provided from Rushlake Drive, Bolton, BL1 3RL

https://chequershealth.co.uk

The service is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

The circumcision clinic operates on Saturdays and Sundays.

Updated 22 April 2022

This service is rated as Good overall. (Previous inspection November 2021 Good)

The key questions are rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

Are services effective - Good

We carried out an announced comprehensive at Chequers Health Group Ltd on 17 November 2021. At this inspection issues were highlighted in the safe domain. This domain was rated as requires improvement. The service was rated as good overall and good for providing effective, caring, responsive and well led services.

We carried out this focussed inspection of Chequers Health Group Ltd on 29 March 2022 to confirm that sufficient improvements had been made to the service. As a result of this inspection, the service is now rated as good for providing safe services.

Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, taking into account the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our inspections differently.

This inspection was carried out in a way which enabled us to spend a minimum amount of time on site. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.

This included:

• A short site visit and reviewing documentation.

Chequers Health Group is a healthcare organisation led by GPs and Consultants to support the NHS in the provision of healthcare in the most appropriate clinical setting. We provide services both to the NHS and the private health sector by delivering speedy diagnosis and high-quality patient care creating greater choice for the patient and care closer to home.

The services we provide include a variety of Consultant led, surgical procedures within key specialties such as, Cardiology, Urology, Gynaecology and family planning, MSK, respiratory, audiology and paediatrics. We work with a number of healthcare partners and are also able to provide onsite diagnostic services, such as Non - Obstetric Ultrasound. In addition, we have an onsite pathology department that is able to offer COVID-19 testing.

The service is registered with CQC to provide the following regulated activities: diagnostic and screening procedures; treatment of disease, disorder or injury; maternity and midwifery services and surgical procedures.

The Chief Executive Officer is the registered manager. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

Our key findings were:

• The infection prevention and control policy and procedures were fully implemented.
• The system to check parents had the necessary parental authority to give valid consent was effective and regularly monitored.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care