Updated 1 October 2025
Date of inspection: 9 October 2025. Stratum clinic is a dermatology clinic which provides several services to patients including treatments for skin cancers and cosmetic care. Patients choose to access the service directly, but may have started their treatment journey in the NHS. The provider has recently moved location. CQC has assessed the new premises as part of our registration assessment during the move. We have applied continuing regulatory history, meaning the inspection history at this location, including the previous ratings for key questions we have not reviewed at this inspection, remain. Some of the services provided at the location are not regulated by the CQC, and therefore we did not include these in this or previous inspections.
This inspection was to follow up on concerns and a breach of regulation following our previous inspection in May 2024. We assessed 2 quality statements across the well-led key question. We have provided new scores for each of these quality statements and the service is now rated as good in well-led and overall.
We found the service had an improved learning culture. Clinical governance processes had been reviewed and improved. Risk management had been improved in relation to potential medical emergencies. As a result, the provider is no longer in breach of the regulation17 Good Governance.