Medevent Medical Services Ltd, Maidstone.Medevent Medical Services Ltd in Maidstone is a Ambulance specialising in the provision of services relating to transport services, triage and medical advice provided remotely and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 16th May 2018 Contact Details:
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5th December 2017 - During a routine inspection
Medevent Medical Services Limited is operated by Medevent Medical Services Limited. They are an independent medical transport provider based in Maidstone, Kent. The service provides medical cover at events such as music events, aviation events, and rugby matches for both adults and children. Trained paramedics, emergency care technicians, and ambulance care assistants are used to staff the services. The service has undertaken three emergency transfers in the last 12 months from events; it is these journeys that fall within the scope of registration with the CQC.
In England, the law makes event organisers responsible for ensuring safety at the event is maintained, which means that medical cover comes under the remit of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). Therefore, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) does not regulate services providing ambulance support at events and this is not a regulated activity. The main service was event work, which the CQC does not regulate. Therefore, these services were not inspected.
The policies, procedures and expectations on staff including completing of patient report forms, administration of medicines, are the same for both the regulated activity and non-regulated activity. Therefore, we used these as evidence for this report.
We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out the announced part of the inspection on 5 December 2017.
To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led?
Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
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We found the following issues that the service provider needs to improve:
However, we found the following areas of good practice:
Following this inspection, we told the provider that it should make other improvements, even though a regulation had not been breached, to help the service improve.
Amanda Stanford
Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals (London and South), on behalf of the Chief Inspector of Hospitals
14th January 2014 - During a routine inspection
Due to the nature of the service we were not able to talk with people who had used the service. This was because the service only provided care and treatment to people who required assistance at organised events. People were supported to make informed choices and given the opportunity to agree to any care and treatment provided. People’s needs were assessed before they were treated. This meant that people received care and treatment that ensured their health, safety and welfare. A risk assessment and management plan was carried out for each individual event in order to ensure the service would meet the needs of the people who were attending these events. Improvements had been made in the procedures for safeguarding people. In that there were now guidelines about how to manage any situations where staff identified someone may be at risk of abuse and there were improved monitoring systems to ensure staff had received appropriate checks. The provider had procedures in place to ensure that staff were suitably qualified to meet the needs of the service. There were suitable quality assurance processes in place that monitored the quality of the service.
12th March 2013 - During a routine inspection
Due to the nature of the service we were not able to talk with people who had used the service. This was because the service only provided care and treatment to people who required assistance at events such as concerts. Events were planned so that appropriate numbers and skill mix of staff were available to meet the needs of the people who used the service. Risk assessments were carried out for events and recommendations to improve safety were made and implemented. We saw that people’s needs were assessed before they were treated and that treatment was planned and delivered in a way that ensured people’s health, safety and welfare. We saw that there were appropriate arrangements in place to obtain, store, record and administer medication. Although the registered provider was clear about how to safeguard the people who used the service, there was no policy or procedure in place. There was a lack of systems in place to ensure that the registered provider was satisfied that staff contracted to work for Medevents Medical Services Ltd had been subject to the appropriate checks. There were suitable quality assurance processes in place that monitored the quality of the service.
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