Archived: Slimmerz Rotherham

Updated 26 November 2021

Slimmerz Rotherham provides weight loss services, including prescribed medicines and dietary advice to support weight reduction. The clinic is located in a shop unit close to the town centre, and includes a reception and waiting area and one consulting room. The clinic is open on variable days to suit the availability of the clinic doctors. Appointments can be made, and opening times confirmed by telephoning the clinic.

How we inspected this service

Before the inspection, we gathered and reviewed information from the provider. We conducted an onsite inspection of the registered location including interviews with the registered manager, and a member of staff. We reviewed a range of the provider’s policies and procedures, patient consultation records and patient feedback received by the service.

To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we always ask the following five questions:

• Is it safe?
• Is it effective?
• Is it caring?
• Is it responsive to people’s needs?
• Is it well-led?

These questions therefore formed the framework for the areas we looked at during the inspection.

Updated 26 November 2021

This service is rated as Choose a rating overall.

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 our first announced comprehensive inspection at Slimmerz Rotherham on 08 July 2021. This was carried out as part of our inspection programme following the registration of a new service.

The clinic manager 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:

• Arrangements were in place to support good infection prevention practices including appropriate social distancing.

The areas where the provider should make improvements are:

• Only supply unlicensed medicines against valid special clinical needs of an individual patient where there is no suitable licensed medicine available
• Review effectiveness of the new system to share information with other Healthcare Professionals sent to us after inspection becoming part of the embedded practice at the clinic.

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