Archived: National Slimming & Cosmetic Clinics

Updated 5 June 2018

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of National Slimming and Cosmetic Clinics (Salisbury) on 26 January 2016. Breaches of legal requirements were found. We undertook this focused review of the service on 09 March 2018 to check that those legal requirements are now met. This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements.

The inspection was led by a member of the CQC medicines team.

We reviewed a range of information that we hold about the service which included information we requested from the provider. We also spoke with the manager of the service. We have not revisited National Slimming and Cosmetic Clinics (Salisbury) as part of this review.

We reviewed the service against three of the five questions we always ask about services to get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment:

• Is it safe?

• 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 review

Updated 5 June 2018

We undertook a desk top focused review of National Slimming and Cosmetic Centre (Salisbury) on 09 March 2018. This review was carried out to check that improvements to meet legal requirements planned by the service after our comprehensive inspection on 26 January 2016 had been made. We reviewed the service against three of the five questions we ask about services: is the service safe, responsive and well-led? This is because the service was not previously meeting some legal requirements.

Our findings were:

Are services safe?

We found that this service was providing safe care in accordance with the relevant regulations

Are services responsive?

We found that this service was providing responsive care in accordance with the relevant regulations

Are services well-led?

We found that this service was providing well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations

Background

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of this service on 26 January 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 safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment, and good governance

We undertook this focused review 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 National Slimming and Cosmetic Clinics (Salisbury) on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

The National Slimming and Cosmetic Clinics (Salisbury) provides weight loss treatment and services, including medicines and dietary advice to people accessing the service. The clinic is on the first floor of a shared building in a city centre location. The clinic is open for half a day on Tuesdays and Fridays.

This service is registered with CQC under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in respect of the provision of advice or treatment by, or under the supervision of, a medical practitioner, including the prescribing of medicines for the purposes of weight reduction. At the National Slimming and Cosmetic Clinics (Salisbury) the aesthetic cosmetic treatments that are also provided are exempt by law from CQC regulation. Therefore we were only able to inspect the treatment for weight reduction but not the aesthetic cosmetic services.

Our key findings were:

• Changes have been made at the service to meet its legal requirements in relation to safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment, and good governance

There were still some 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
• Review the ordering process for controlled drugs in line with changes in legislation