St John's Medical Practice, Sevenoaks.

St John's Medical Practice in Sevenoaks is a Doctors/GP specialising in the provision of services relating to diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, services for everyone, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 20th February 2017

St John's Medical Practice is managed by St John's Medical Practice.

Contact Details:

Address: St John's Medical Practice 39 St John's Hill Sevenoaks TN13 3NT United Kingdom Telephone: 01732747202 Website: http://www.stjohnsmedicalpractice.co.uk

Ratings:

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Further Details:

Important Dates:

Last Inspection		2017-02-20
Last Published		2017-02-20

Local Authority:

Kent

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Inspection Reports:

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11th January 2017 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at St John’s Medical Practice on 23 August 2016. The overall rating for the practice was good but was rated as requires improvement for providing safe services. The full comprehensive report on the August 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for St John’s Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This inspection was a desk-based review carried out on 11 January 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 on 23 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:

At our previous inspection on 23 August 2016, we rated the practice as requires improvement for providing safe services as not all clinical staff had received training on safeguarding vulnerable adults which was relevant to their role and appropriate recruitment checks had not been undertaken prior to employment of new staff. At this inspection we found that all clinical staff had received and completed safeguarding vulnerable adults training that was relevant to their role and that systems and processes had been implemented to ensure appropriate recruitment checks were completed before new staff were employed at the practice.

Additionally, the practice provided evidence to show that they had taken action to address the areas where they should make improvements.

• A system had been implemented in order to help ensure that expiry dates of single use items were being routinely monitored and recorded.

• The written audit trail of complaint investigations had been improved.

• The minutes of meetings held at the practice had been improved in order to ensure they were fully auditable.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

23rd August 2016 - During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at St John’s Medical Practice on 23 August 2016. The overall rating for the practice was good but was rated as requires improvement for providing safe services. The full comprehensive report on the August 2016 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for St John’s Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This inspection was a desk-based review carried out on 11 January 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 on 23 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:

At our previous inspection on 23 August 2016, we rated the practice as requires improvement for providing safe services as not all clinical staff had received training on safeguarding vulnerable adults which was relevant to their role and appropriate recruitment checks had not been undertaken prior to employment of new staff. At this inspection we found that all clinical staff had received and completed safeguarding vulnerable adults training that was relevant to their role and that systems and processes had been implemented to ensure appropriate recruitment checks were completed before new staff were employed at the practice.

Additionally, the practice provided evidence to show that they had taken action to address the areas where they should make improvements.

• A system had been implemented in order to help ensure that expiry dates of single use items were being routinely monitored and recorded.

• The written audit trail of complaint investigations had been improved.

• The minutes of meetings held at the practice had been improved in order to ensure they were fully auditable.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice