Welling Medical Practice, Welling.

Welling Medical Practice in Welling 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 12th May 2016

Welling Medical Practice is managed by Welling Medical Practice who are also responsible for 1 other location

Contact Details:

Address: Welling Medical Practice 2 Danson Crescent Welling DA16 2AT United Kingdom Telephone: 08444770970 Website: http://www.wellingmedicalpractice.co.uk

Ratings:

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Further Details:

Important Dates:

Last Inspection		2016-05-12
Last Published		2016-05-12

Local Authority:

Bexley

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Inspection Reports:

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1st April 2016 - During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice on 28 July 2015. Breaches of legal requirements were found. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach of regulation 12(1)(2)(b)(d)(g)(h) Safe care and treatment of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

We undertook this desk-based focussed inspection on 1 April 2016 to check that they had followed their plan and to confirm that they now met the legal requirements. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also where additional improvements have been made following the initial inspection. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Welling Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Overall the practice is rated as Good. Specifically, following the focussed inspection we found the practice to be good for providing safe services. As the practice was now found to be providing good services for safety, this affected the ratings for the population groups we inspect against. Therefore, it was also good for providing services for older people; people with long-term conditions; families, children and young people; working age people (including those recently retired and students); people whose circumstances make them vulnerable and people experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia).

Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:

• Risks to patients were assessed and well-managed, including those related to medicines management, infection control and responding to emergencies.

However there were areas of practice where the provider should make improvements:

• Ensure that the practice has a system for ensuring monitoring of refrigerator temperatures every day that the practice is open, in line with recommended guidance.
• Ensure that clinical staffing levels are appropriately planned and monitored.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

28th July 2015 - During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice on 28 July 2015. Breaches of legal requirements were found. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach of regulation 12(1)(2)(b)(d)(g)(h) Safe care and treatment of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

We undertook this desk-based focussed inspection on 1 April 2016 to check that they had followed their plan and to confirm that they now met the legal requirements. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also where additional improvements have been made following the initial inspection. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Welling Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Overall the practice is rated as Good. Specifically, following the focussed inspection we found the practice to be good for providing safe services. As the practice was now found to be providing good services for safety, this affected the ratings for the population groups we inspect against. Therefore, it was also good for providing services for older people; people with long-term conditions; families, children and young people; working age people (including those recently retired and students); people whose circumstances make them vulnerable and people experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia).

Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:

• Risks to patients were assessed and well-managed, including those related to medicines management, infection control and responding to emergencies.

However there were areas of practice where the provider should make improvements:

• Ensure that the practice has a system for ensuring monitoring of refrigerator temperatures every day that the practice is open, in line with recommended guidance.
• Ensure that clinical staffing levels are appropriately planned and monitored.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP 

Chief Inspector of General Practice