Dr Sobia Medispa

Updated 11 March 2022

Dr Sobia Medispa, The Old Post House, 46 King Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EU is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as an independent health service provider. The provider is a registered doctor and offers a range of medical, cosmetic and aesthetic services to adults over the age of 18 years.

The web address for the service is: https://www.drsobiamedispa.co.uk

The service is located within an older stone building which has been adapted to provide a variety high street stores. The provider had newly refurbished their clinic and this provided a modern spacious facility. Access into the service is restricted by one step into the clinic.

The service is registered with the CQC to provide the following regulated activities:

Surgical procedures

Treatment of disease, disorder and injury

Diagnostic and screening procedures

The provider of the service also works as a GP and is appropriately registered with the General Medical Council (GMC).

Dr Sobia Medispa is open Monday to Friday from 9.30 am until 5pm, from 9am until 4pm on Saturdays, and is closed Sundays.

How we inspected this service

We carried out a desk-based focused inspection of the safe key question for Dr Sobia Medispa on 15 February 2022. This involved reviewing evidence such as:

• The CQC registration
• A service contract with a laboratory.
• Redacted laboratory report
• Certificates of training
• Updated policies
• Redacted recruitment logs.

Updated 11 March 2022

This service is rated as Good overall.

The key questions are rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection, as part of our inspection programme on 11 May 2021 at Dr Sobia Medispa. The service was rated good overall however the safe key question was rated requires improvement. We issued a requirement notice for breach of Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment. The full comprehensive report on the May 2021 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Dr Sobia Medispa on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This inspection was a desk-based review carried out on 15 February 2022 to confirm that the service had made the required improvements identified at our previous inspection in May 2021. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.

The service is now rated good for providing safe services.

This service is registered with CQC under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in respect of some, but not all, of the services it provides. There are some exemptions from regulation by CQC which relate to particular types of regulated activities and services and these are set out in Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. Dr Sobia Medispa provides a range of non-surgical cosmetic interventions, for example facial fillers for skin rejuvenation, which are not within CQC scope of registration.

The service is provided from The Old Post House, 46 King Street, Clitheroe BB7 2EU. Services are offered on a private, fee-paying basis only.

The registered provider is a doctor and they lead the service. 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:

At our inspection in May 2021 we identified that a process to routinely send excised skin lesions for histological examination to rule out the presence of serious disease was not established. At this desk top review the provider supplied evidence that this had been addressed. This included:

• The Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration for Dr Sobia Medispa had been updated to include the regulated activity Diagnostic and screening procedures.
• The provider had a contract in place with an independent laboratory that undertook histopathological examination of any excised skin lesions.

The provider also provided evidence that they had made other recommended improvements identified at the inspection of May 2021. For example, relevant policy documents and training and recruitment records had been updated as needed

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care.