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Thamesmead Health Centre

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

4 - 5 Thames Reach, London, SE28 0NY (020) 8319 5880

Provided and run by:
AT Medics Limited

Important: The provider of this service changed. See old profile

All Inspections

6 July 2023

During a monthly review of our data

We carried out a review of the data available to us about Thamesmead Health Centre on 6 July 2023. We have not found evidence that we need to carry out an inspection or reassess our rating at this stage.

This could change at any time if we receive new information. We will continue to monitor data about this service.

If you have concerns about Thamesmead Health Centre, you can give feedback on this service.

26 November 2019

During an annual regulatory review

We reviewed the information available to us about Thamesmead Health Centre on 26 November 2019. We did not find evidence of significant changes to the quality of service being provided since the last inspection. As a result, we decided not to inspect the surgery at this time. We will continue to monitor this information about this service throughout the year and may inspect the surgery when we see evidence of potential changes.

21/03/2018

During a routine inspection

This practice is rated as good overall.

The key questions are rated as:

Are services safe? - good

Are services effective? - good

Are services caring? - good

Are services responsive? - good

Are services well-led? - good

As part of our inspection process, we also look at the quality of care for specific population groups.

The population groups are rated as:

Older People - good

People with long-term conditions – good

Families, children and young people – good

Working age people (including those recently retired and students – good

People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable – good

People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) - good

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Thamesmead Health Centre on 21 March 2018 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was carried out inline with our next phase inspection programme.

At this inspection we found:

• The practice had a vision to deliver high quality care for patients.

• The service had systems and processes in place to ensure that patients were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in decisions about their care and treatment.

• The practice had clear systems to manage risk so that safety incidents were less likely to happen. When incidents did happen, the practice learned from them and improved their processes.

• The practice routinely reviewed the effectiveness and appropriateness of the care it provided. It ensured that care and treatment was delivered according to evidence- based guidelines.

• Staff involved and treated patients with compassion,kindness, dignity and respect.

• Patients found the appointment system easy to use and reported that they were able to access care when they needed it. The practice offered a flexible range of appointments and services.

• There was a strong focus on continuous learning and improvement at all levels of the organisation.

• There were systems in place to ensure that patients with long-term conditions or who were vulnerable received the treatment and health checks they needed.

The areas where the provider should make improvements are:

• Make all appropriate staff aware of the process for recording, resetting and logging fridge temperatures.

• Take steps to increase the annual review rate of patients identified as having a learning disability and review the need to put processes in place to ensure GPs have appropriate involvement in the annual reviews of people with learning disabilities undertaken by the healthcare assistant and pharmacist.

• The practice should formalise the structure of supervision for all employed clinical staff.

• Review the processes in place for cervical screening to increase uptake.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice