We carried out a review of the data available to us about The Village Medical 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 The Village Medical Centre, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at The Village Medical Centre on 8 December 2015 and at this time the practice was rated overall as good. However breaches of a legal requirement were also found. After the comprehensive inspection the practice wrote to us and told us that they would take action to meet the following legal requirements set out in the Health and Social Care Act (HSCA) 2008:
Regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulation 2010, Safe care and treatment.
On 13 April 2016 we carried out a focused review of this service under section 60 of the Health and Social care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. The review was carried out to check whether the provider had completed the improvements needed and identified during the comprehensive review on 8 December 2015. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. The report from our last comprehensive inspection can be read by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for The Village Medical Centre on our website at cqc.org.uk
The findings of this review were as follows:
The practice had addressed the issues identified during the previous inspection.
Effective systems were now in place to ensure accurate recording of medicine fridge temperatures and to ensure the correct procedures were followed if the temperatures fall outside of the required range for temperature sensitive medicines.
Staff had received training in safe storage of temperature sensitive medicines.
Effective systems were now in place to monitor the fridge recordings to ensure medicines were stored safely.
Other recommended actions had been taken to improve care and services.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at The Village Medical Centre on 8 December 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
There was an area where the provider must improve, this was to:
Ensure accurate recording of medicine fridge temperatures and ensure the correct procedures are followed if the temperatures fall outside of the required range for temperature sensitive medicines.
There were areas where the provider could make improvements and they should:
Implement patient specific directives (PSDs) for administration of medicines by non-registered nurses.
Implement a Legionella action plan to ensure water supplies are monitored and safe.
Make the business continuity plan easily accessible to all staff.
Implement a system to record actions taken when national patient safety and other relevant alerts and guidance are followed.
Appoint a suitably experienced and qualified infection control lead.
Hold a stock of children’s defibrillator pads.
Chief Inspector of General Practice