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Your Slimming Clinic

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

937 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, BH9 2BN

Provided and run by:
Your Slimming Clinic Ltd

All Inspections

6 July 2023

During a monthly review of our data

We carried out a review of the data available to us about Your Slimming Clinic 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 Your Slimming Clinic, you can give feedback on this service.

30 October 2021

During a routine inspection

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 our first announced comprehensive inspection at Your Slimming Clinic as part of our inspection programme following the registration of a new service.

The service provides clinics to support people to manage their weight within the Bournemouth area.

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. Your Slimming Clinic provides a range of non-surgical cosmetic interventions, for example dermal fillers and Facial Contouring which are not within CQC scope of registration. Therefore, we did not inspect or report on these services.

The clinic manager 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.

We spoke to one person during the inspection and observed the clinic staff interacting with patients. The person we spoke to was very positive about the service. They described how their medical history was taken and how the risks and benefits of the medicines were explained. We saw how the clinic staff were supportive and engaging with their patients.

Our key findings were:

  • Patients were positive about the staff and the service
  • Staff displayed an understanding and non-judgmental attitude to all patients
  • Prescribing and record keeping were in line with the provider’s policies
  • The clinic was in a good state of repair, clean and tidy.

The areas where the provider should make improvements are:

  • To ensure that fire drills are undertaken
  • To have a system in place to retain medical records in line with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance in the event that they cease trading
  • To only supply unlicensed medicines against valid special clinical needs of an individual patient where there is no suitable licensed medicine available
  • To ensure that the independent adjudication service referred to in the complaints policy is appropriate for the service.

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