Standish Medical Practice

Updated 12 July 2018

Standish Medical Practice is the registered provider and provides primary care services to its registered list of 12,162 patients. The practice delivers commissioned services under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract and is a member of NHS Wigan Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The GMS contract is the contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering primary care services to local communities. The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures; family planning; maternity and midwifery services; surgical procedures, and treatment of disease, disorder and injury.

Regulated activities are delivered to the patient population from the following address:

49 High Street

Wigan

Lancashire

WN6 0HD

The practice has a website that contains comprehensive information about what they do to support their patient population and the in house and online services offered:

The age profile of the practice population is broadly in line with the CCG averages. Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is located in the nineth least deprived decile (from a possible range of between 1 and 10). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services.

Patients requiring a GP outside of normal working hours were advised to contact the surgery and they would be directed to the local out of hours service which was provided by Bridgewater NHS Foundation Trust –through NHS 111.

Updated 12 July 2018

This practice is rated as Good overall. (Previous inspection 18 November 2014 – Good)

The key questions are rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

Are services effective? – Good

Are services caring? – Good

Are services responsive? – Good

Are services well-led? - Good

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Standish Medical Practice on 6 June 2018 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. The inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide a rating for the service under the Care Act 2014

At this inspection we found:

• The practice had clear systems to manage risk so that safety incidents were less likely to happen. When incidents did happen, the practice learned from them and improved their processes.
• The practice routinely reviewed the effectiveness and appropriateness of the care it provided. It ensured that care and treatment was delivered according to evidence- based guidelines.
• Staff involved and treated patients with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.
• Patients found the appointment system easy to use and reported that they were able to access care when they needed it.
• Patient feedback on the care and treatment delivered by all staff was consistently positive.
• The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
• There was a strong focus on continuous learning and improvement at all levels of the organisation.

We saw one area of outstanding practice:

• The practice, through the patient participation group (PPG), worked in collaboration with local schools to produce posters and leaflets for the local population. These were distributed across Standish and were for patients to update their contact details with the practice. They also asked if patients were carers and also if they would like to know more about the PPG. This initiative had enabled the practice to engage with those members of the patient population who had not updated their contact details with the practice.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
Chief Inspector of General Practice

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