9 Jul to 9 Jul
During a routine inspection
This service is rated as Good overall.
(Two recent inspections were carried out: the first on 11 January 2019 and at this inspection we found that the service was not providing safe, effective or well-led care in accordance with the regulations. The second follow-up inspection on 11 March 2019 focused on these key areas and we found that the provider had made the necessary improvements and was providing safe, effective, and well-led care in accordance with the relevant regulations.)
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 Loughton Private Medical Centre as part of our regulatory function. This inspection was planned to check whether Loughton Private Medical Centre was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
The practice is a private clinic, located in Loughton in Essex. The clinic provides cardiac diagnostic services to adults. Since the first inspection, the provider has reviewed the regulated activities they provide and reduced them in number, focusing on cardiac diagnosis and screening only.
The physician 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.
There were no completed CQC comment cards to review as only six patients had attended the clinic in the two weeks prior to the inspection, when the cards were available, and none of these had completed a card.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCPHYSICIAN
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care