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Archived: The London Travel Clinic at Wandsworth

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

90-92 Garratt Lane, London, SW18 4DD

Provided and run by:
London Travel Clinic Limited

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Background to this inspection

Updated 20 March 2020

The London Travel Clinic at Wandsworth provides travel health services including vaccinations, medicines and advice on travel related issues to both adults and children. The clinic is based at 90-92 Garratt Lane, London, SW18 4DD. The location has four linked sites at Hammersmith (227 Shepherd's Bush Road London, W6 7AS), Waterloo (Mercury House, 109-117 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UL), Richmond (Parkshot House 5 Kew Road, Richmond Surrey, TW9 2PR) and Raynes Park, (David Lloyd, Bushey Road, London,SW208DE).

The service sees between 200 and 500 patients a month at The London Travel Clinic at Wandsworth. The service is a designated yellow fever vaccination centre. Services are available to any fee-paying patient. The service had corporate account clients for businesses to access travel health services for their employees.

The service is in an accessible purpose-built building which also hosts a GP practice.

Patients are directed to the first floor of the building which is accessible via lift or stairs, to the provider’s reception and waiting area. The areas used by the service include consultation rooms, administrative space and accessible patient and staff facilities.

Services are available by appointment only. The service’s opening times vary fortnightly and appointments are available either between Tuesday and Thursday 1-5pm or Monday, and Wednesday 8.30am-8pm Saturdays 9am-4pm.

At a local level the service is run by a travel nurse specialist, who is the nurse manager and operations manager, a reception and administration manager and four nurses. Those staff who are required to register with a professional body were registered with a licence to practice.

The service is registered with the CQC to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 20 March 2020

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced focused follow up inspection on 17 February 2020 at London Travel Clinic Wandsworth to confirm that the provider had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches in regulations that we identified in our previous inspection on 16 August 2019. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.

Overall the practice is now rated as Good.

Our key findings were as follows:

  • There were systems in place to assess, address and mitigate the risks associated with fire and legionella.
  • The business continuity plan included contact details of all staff working in the service.
  • There were systems in place to review and update Patient Group Directions (PGDs).

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP

Chief Inspector of General Practice