London Circumcision Centre

Updated 25 April 2022

The London Circumcision Centre operates as an independent circumcision delivering services from 142 George Lane, London, E18 1AY.

The fee-paying service provides circumcision to newborns, children and adults for therapeutic and non-therapeutic reasons under local anaesthetic. In addition, the service provides paediatric urology services.

The service is registered with the Care Quality Commission for the provision of surgical procedures and the treatment of disease, disorder or injury regulated activities.

The location where the service is located is in a rented multi-use ground floor building which is easily accessible for those bringing children to the clinic, or for those with mobility issues. The centre has level floor surfaces, automatic doors and has good public transport links. Public pay car parks are located a short distance from the location. The service has a specific room in this location from which it conducts its regulated activities.

The service is operated by Dr A Khan who is the named provider. Procedures are undertaken by the provider who is a qualified and registered paediatric urologist/surgeon alongside a further two consultant urologists and a paediatric surgeon.

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Appointments are available as follows: -

• Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month
• Every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
• Every 2nd Sunday of the month

How we inspected this service

Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, considering the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our inspections differently.

This inspection was carried out in a way which enabled us to spend a minimum amount of time on site. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.

During our inspection we:-

• Looked at the systems in place relating to safety and governance of the service.
• Viewed key policies and procedures
• Conducted remote interviews with staff
• Reviewed clinical records

To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we always ask the following five questions:

• Is it safe?
• Is it effective?
• Is it caring?
• Is it responsive to people’s needs?
• Is it well-led?

These questions therefore formed the framework for the areas we looked at during the inspection.

Updated 25 April 2022

This service 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

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at the London Circumcision Centre. This inspection was conducted as part of our inspection programme of independent health providers.

The provider is the registered manager. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

Our key findings were:

• The service had systems in place which kept patients safe. These included checks on patients attending the service and risk assessments conducted to ensure staff and patients were safe whilst attending the centre.
• Staff at the service had the skills and knowledge to provide effective care.
• Feedback on the provider and service revealed high levels of patient satisfaction.
• Provision of services at the clinic considered patient demand and included timely access appointments which included face-to-face, telephone and video consultations.
• There was a focus on innovative, learning and improvement.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care