Updated 24 April 2024
Harraton Surgery is an NHS GP practice located in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The practice has a branch site at Springwell Road Surgery in Sunderland. The deprivation score of the area in which the practice is situated is 4 (1 being most deprived, 10 being less deprived). There were approximately 3,800 people registered with the practice at the time of our assessment. The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services; treatment of disease, disorder or injury and surgical procedures. These are delivered from both sites. The provider is a sole trader who has another GP practice contract based in the Gateshead Integrated Care Board (ICB) area. We carried out an announced focused assessment of 29 quality statements, under the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions between 18 June 2024 and 20 June 2024. This assessment was carried out to assess whether there had been improvements since the last inspection of this service in June 2023, at which time the practice was rated inadequate overall and placed into special measures. At this assessment, we found that although there had been improvements since the last inspection, there were still significant concerns about governance arrangements in the practice which had an impact on safe and effective care. This was in spite of concerns being raised repeatedly about governance at the practice since 2015. As a result, we found a breach of regulations linked to good governance. In instances where CQC have decided to take civil or criminal enforcement action against a provider, we will publish this information on our website after any representations and/ or appeals have been concluded. We are taking this service out of special measures. This recognises the improvements that have been made to the quality of care provided by this service.