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Lynton Health Centre, Burvill Street, Lynton.

Lynton Health Centre in Burvill Street, Lynton 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 31st March 2017

Lynton Health Centre is managed by Lynton Health Centre.

Contact Details:

    Address:
      Lynton Health Centre
      Lyn Health
      Burvill Street
      Lynton
      EX35 6HA
      United Kingdom
    Telephone:
      01598753702

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 2017-03-31
    Last Published 2017-03-31

Local Authority:

    Devon

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Inspection Reports:

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14th March 2017 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made pdf icon

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Lynton Health Centre on 2 August 2016. The overall rating for the practice was requires improvement. The full comprehensive report on 2 August 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Lynton Health Centre on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 14 March 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches in regulations that we identified in our previous inspection in August 2016. 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.

Our key findings were as follows:

  • There were effective systems to assess the risk of preventing, detecting and controlling the spread of infections, including those that are health care associated.

  • There were effective recruitment procedures ensuring all necessary checks were made prior to a new member of staff commencing employment. This included obtaining satisfactory information for locum GPs.

  • Effective audit and governance systems to assess, monitor and mitigate the risks relating to the health, safety and welfare of patients had been implemented. This is in respect of monitoring risks, reviewing and updating policies and monitoring arrangements with the local NHS Trust who employed nurses to give care to the practice patients.

We looked at other areas highlighted by us for improvement and saw positive changes:

  • Child safeguarding procedures had been reviewed in line with current guidelines.

  • The practice was now fully utilising the electronic patient record system to ensure any concerning information about a patient was recorded and coded accordingly for ease of searches and reduction of any associated risks.

  • The practice had reviewed procedures and was following current guidelines covering the safe monitoring of vaccines for patient use by recording the minimum and maximum temperatures of any refrigerators being used.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice
2nd August 2016 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Lynton Health Centre on 2 August 2016. The overall rating for the practice was requires improvement. The full comprehensive report on 2 August 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Lynton Health Centre on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This inspection was an announced focused inspection carried out on 14 March 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches in regulations that we identified in our previous inspection in August 2016. 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.

Our key findings were as follows:

  • There were effective systems to assess the risk of preventing, detecting and controlling the spread of infections, including those that are health care associated.

  • There were effective recruitment procedures ensuring all necessary checks were made prior to a new member of staff commencing employment. This included obtaining satisfactory information for locum GPs.

  • Effective audit and governance systems to assess, monitor and mitigate the risks relating to the health, safety and welfare of patients had been implemented. This is in respect of monitoring risks, reviewing and updating policies and monitoring arrangements with the local NHS Trust who employed nurses to give care to the practice patients.

We looked at other areas highlighted by us for improvement and saw positive changes:

  • Child safeguarding procedures had been reviewed in line with current guidelines.

  • The practice was now fully utilising the electronic patient record system to ensure any concerning information about a patient was recorded and coded accordingly for ease of searches and reduction of any associated risks.

  • The practice had reviewed procedures and was following current guidelines covering the safe monitoring of vaccines for patient use by recording the minimum and maximum temperatures of any refrigerators being used.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

 

 

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