Archived: Medical Slimming Clinic - Doncaster

Updated 15 March 2017

We undertook an unannounced focused inspection of Medical Slimming Clinic -Doncaster on 17 December 2016. This inspection was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the service after our comprehensive inspection on 03 February 2016 had been made. We inspected the service against three of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe, effective, and well-led. This is because the service was not meeting some legal requirements.

Updated 15 March 2017

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 03 February 2016. Breaches of legal requirements were found. After the comprehensive inspection, the service wrote to us to say what they would do to meet legal requirements in relation to breaches of regulations 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

We undertook this focused inspection to check that they had followed their plan and to confirm that they now met legal requirements. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Medical Slimming Clinic -Doncaster on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Our findings were:

Are services safe?

We found that this service was not providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations because safety systems and processes were not reliable; proper recruitment checks had not been carried out, infection prevention and control arrangements were inadequate and a fire risk assessment had not been carried out.

Are services effective?

We found that this service was not providing effective care in accordance with the relevant regulations because decisions about treatment were not always clearly recorded in patient’s records and medicines were prescribed against manufacturer's recommendations.

Are services well-led?

We found that this service was not providing well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations because the provider did not have adequate systems and processes in place to monitor and improve the quality of the service being provided.

We identified regulations that were not being met and the provider must:

• Ensure there are adequate systems and processes in place to monitor and improve the quality of the service being provided
• Ensure there is an adequate fire risk assessment in place
• Ensure there are safe systems in place for the management of medicines
• Ensure adequate infection control measures are in place at the service
• Ensure proper recruitment checks are carried out prior to employment
• Ensure that robust systems and processes are in place to prevent abuse of service users
• Maintain an up to date record of appraisals

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

You can see full details of the regulations not being met at the end of this report.