Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr S P Singh and Partners on 5 April 2016. The overall rating for the practice was good. However, the practice was rated as requires improvement for providing safe services.
The full comprehensive report on the 5 April 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Dr S P Singh and Partners on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 24 January 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out the improvements required that we identified in our previous inspection on 5 April 2016.
Following this latest inspection the key question in relation to the provision of safe services at this location is now rated as good, the overall rating for the practice remains as good.
Our key findings were as follows:
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The practice had taken a systematic approach to review the findings of the 5 April 2016 inspection, by working both in-house and in conjunction with NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group. We saw they had developed and implemented actions to rectify all areas that were recognised as requiring improvement.
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The practice had put in place processes to ensure that staff were up to date with their immunity and vaccination status with particular regard to measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. The practice had also developed a staff screening and immunisation policy and a Hepatitis B policy to underpin this approach and these had both been in place since May 2016.
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Patient Group Directions were in date and properly authorised. Vaccination and immunisation training for nursing staff had taken place in May 2016 and we saw evidence that further update training had been organised for the near future.
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The practice policy in relation to the administration of immunisations at the surgery had been updated in July 2016 and staff could access guidance regarding vaccinations on the practice computer system.
- All vaccines stored in the practice were in date and there was a system in place to ensure that effective stock control and storage conditions were maintained.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice