Archived: National Slimming Centres (Brighton)

Updated 1 June 2018

We carried out an announced focused inspection of National Slimming Centres (Brighton) on 10 April 2018. This inspection was carried out to check that the service had made improvements to meet legal requirements following our comprehensive inspection on 6 June 2017. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements.

The team was led by a CQC pharmacist specialist and included a second member of the CQC medicines team.

Before visiting, we reviewed the action plan submitted to us by the provider. During the inspection, we interviewed the manager and reviewed documents and patient records.

We inspected the service against three of the five questions we ask about services to get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment:

• Is it safe?

• Is it effective?

• Is it responsive to people’s needs?

This is because the service was not meeting some legal requirements.

Updated 1 June 2018

We carried out an announced focused inspection of National Slimming Centres (Brighton) on 10 April 2018. This inspection was carried out to check that the service had made improvements to meet legal requirements following our comprehensive inspection on 6 June 2017. We reviewed the service against three of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe, effective and responsive? This is because the service was not previously meeting some legal requirements.

Our findings were:

Are services safe?

We found that this service was providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Are services effective?

We found that this service was providing effective care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Are services responsive?

We found that this service was providing responsive care in accordance with the relevant regulations.

We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the service was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

CQC inspected the service on 6 June 2017 and asked the provider to make improvements regarding safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment. We checked these areas as part of this focused inspection and found this had been resolved.

This service is registered with CQC under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in respect of the provision of advice or treatment by, or under the supervision of, a medical practitioner, including the prescribing of medicines for the purposes of weight reduction. At National Slimming Centres (Brighton) the aesthetic cosmetic treatments that are also provided are exempt by law from CQC regulation. Therefore, we were only able to inspect the treatment for weight reduction, but not the aesthetic cosmetic services.

Our key findings were:

• Changes have been made at the service to meet its legal requirements in relation to safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment

There were areas where the provider could make improvements and should:

• Only supply unlicensed medicines against valid special clinical needs of an individual patient where there is no suitable licensed medicine available