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Brackley Medical Centre, Brackley.

Brackley Medical Centre in Brackley is a Doctors/GP specialising in the provision of services relating to diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, maternity and midwifery services, services for everyone, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 16th May 2017

Brackley Medical Centre is managed by Brackley Medical Centre.

Contact Details:

    Address:
      Brackley Medical Centre
      77 Halse Road
      Brackley
      NN13 6EQ
      United Kingdom
    Telephone:
      01280702436

Ratings:

For a guide to the ratings, click here.

Safe: Good
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Good
Well-Led: Good
Overall: Good

Further Details:

Important Dates:

    Last Inspection 2017-05-16
    Last Published 2017-05-16

Local Authority:

    Northamptonshire

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Inspection Reports:

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6th April 2017 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Brackley Medical Centre (formerly known as Washington House Surgery) on 30 July 2015. The overall rating for the practice was Good however a breach of legal requirements was found. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us and submitted an action plan outlining the actions they would take to meet legal requirements in relation to:

  • Regulation 12 (RA) Regulations 2014, Safe care and treatment.

  • Regulation 19 (RA) Regulations 2014, Fit and proper persons employed.

The full comprehensive report of the inspection on 30 July 2015 can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Brackley Medical Centre (formerly known as Washington House Surgery) on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

This inspection was a desk-based focused follow up inspection carried out on 6 April 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach in regulation that we identified in our previous inspection on 30 July 2015. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.

Overall the practice is now rated as ‘Good’.

From the inspection on 30 July 2015, the practice was told they must:

  • Strengthen arrangements for the secure storing and recording of non-refrigerated medicines.

  • Improve monitoring arrangements for the controlled drugs received and used by the GPs.

  • Introduce a system that would identify if a blank form for hand written prescriptions was missing or used inappropriately.

  • Introduce Disclosure and Barring Service checks or risk assessments for non clinical staff including three staff trained as a chaperone to determine the need for such checks.

We also told the practice that they should make improvements to the follows areas:

  • To the way staff were appraised. At the time of the inspection the practice programme for staff appraisals was behind schedule.

  • To the way staff received infection control training. At the time of the inspection, reception, administration and GP staff had been excluded from infection control training and a risk assessment on why those staff did not require the training had not been completed.

Our key findings from the April 2017 inspection were as follows:

  • The practice had made the necessary changes to their procedures and was now compliant with the requirements of regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) and Regulation 19 (Fit and proper persons employed) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

  • The practice confirmed that the programme for staff appraisals had been completed and confirmed all staff has had an appraisal in the past 12 months.

  • The practice confirmed that the requirements for infection control training had been reviewed and all practice staff had received infection control training in the last 12 months.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice
30th July 2015 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Brackley Medical Centre (formerly known as Washington House Surgery) on 30 July 2015. The overall rating for the practice was Good however a breach of legal requirements was found. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us and submitted an action plan outlining the actions they would take to meet legal requirements in relation to:

  • Regulation 12 (RA) Regulations 2014, Safe care and treatment.

  • Regulation 19 (RA) Regulations 2014, Fit and proper persons employed.

The full comprehensive report of the inspection on 30 July 2015 can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Brackley Medical Centre (formerly known as Washington House Surgery) on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

This inspection was a desk-based focused follow up inspection carried out on 6 April 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach in regulation that we identified in our previous inspection on 30 July 2015. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.

Overall the practice is now rated as ‘Good’.

From the inspection on 30 July 2015, the practice was told they must:

  • Strengthen arrangements for the secure storing and recording of non-refrigerated medicines.

  • Improve monitoring arrangements for the controlled drugs received and used by the GPs.

  • Introduce a system that would identify if a blank form for hand written prescriptions was missing or used inappropriately.

  • Introduce Disclosure and Barring Service checks or risk assessments for non clinical staff including three staff trained as a chaperone to determine the need for such checks.

We also told the practice that they should make improvements to the follows areas:

  • To the way staff were appraised. At the time of the inspection the practice programme for staff appraisals was behind schedule.

  • To the way staff received infection control training. At the time of the inspection, reception, administration and GP staff had been excluded from infection control training and a risk assessment on why those staff did not require the training had not been completed.

Our key findings from the April 2017 inspection were as follows:

  • The practice had made the necessary changes to their procedures and was now compliant with the requirements of regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) and Regulation 19 (Fit and proper persons employed) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

  • The practice confirmed that the programme for staff appraisals had been completed and confirmed all staff has had an appraisal in the past 12 months.

  • The practice confirmed that the requirements for infection control training had been reviewed and all practice staff had received infection control training in the last 12 months.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

 

 

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