We carried out a review of the data available to us about The Edmonton Medical Practice 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 Edmonton Medical Practice, you can give feedback on this service.
We undertook an announced focussed inspection of Edmonton Medical Practice on 14 July 2016. We found the practice to be good for providing safe and well led services and it is rated as good overall.
We had previously conducted an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice on 17 December 2015. As a result of our findings during the visit, the practice was rated as good for being effective, caring and responsive, and requires improvement for being safe and well led, which resulted in a rating of requires improvement overall. We found that the provider had breached three regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2008; Regulation 15 (1) (e) premises and equipment, Regulation 18 (2) (a) staffing and Regulation 19 (1) and (2) fit and proper persons employed.
The practice wrote to us to tell us what they would do to make improvements and meet the legal requirements. We undertook this focussed inspection to check that the practice had followed their plan, and to confirm that they had met the legal requirements.
This report only covers our findings in relation to those areas where requirements had not been met. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for the Edmonton Medical Practice on our website at http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-1245401210/reports. Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
Practice recruitment policies had been updated to include the obtaining of references.
All staff had undertaken safeguarding and infection control training.
All portable electrical equipment had been recently tested.
All staff who undertook chaperone duties had been trained and received a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
All patient group directions (PGD’s) were up to date and appropriately signed.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at the Edmonton Medical Practice on 17 December 2015. Overall the practice is rated as requires improvement.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows
The areas where the provider must make improvements are:
Ensure that staff receive appropriate training for their role, including safeguarding and infection control training.
Ensure pre-employment checks are carried out for staff.
Ensure portable electrical equipment is tested and appropriately maintained.
In addition the provider should:
Update practice policies to ensure key information is up to date, for example the contact details of external safeguarding teams.
Implement cleaning schedules to monitor cleaning standards and ensure an action plan is followed following the recent infection control audit.
Ensure all Patient specific directions are up to date.
Review the level of risk that staff undertake and apply for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks as appropriate.
Develop online services to improve access for patients.
Provide a defibrillator or ensure a risk assessment has been undertaken to address the reasons for not providing one.
Chief Inspector of General Practice