Vernon Park Surgery Also known as Vernon Park Surgery

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• Overview
• Assessing needs
• Delivering evidence-based care and treatment
• How staff, teams and services work together
• Supporting people to live healthier lives
• Monitoring and improving outcomes
• Consent to care and treatment

We looked for evidence staff involved people in decisions about their care and treatment and provided them with advice and support. Staff regularly reviewed people’s care and worked with other services to achieve this. At our last assessment, we rated this key question as good. At this assessment, the rating remains the same.

This service scored 75 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.

We did not look at Assessing needs during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.

We did not look at Delivering evidence-based care and treatment during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.

We did not look at How staff, teams and services work together during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.

The service supported people to manage their health and wellbeing to maximise their independence, choice and control. The service supported people to live healthier lives and where possible, reduce their future needs for care and support.
Staff focussed on identifying risks to people’s health, including those in the last 12 months of their lives and those with caring responsibilities. Staff supported national priorities and initiatives to improve population health, including stopping smoking and tackling obesity.
 

The service routinely monitored people’s care and treatment to continuously improve it. They ensured outcomes were positive, consistent and met the expectations of people themselves.
The service met or exceeded in some areas, national targets for the uptake of childhood immunisations. The service performed the same or better than the England average in relation to several cancer screening programmes, including screening for breast, bowel and cervical cancer. The service ensured that people using the service were called in on a regular basis and in a timely way to have regular health checks to make sure they were supported to know to manage conditions and how to make appropriate lifestyle choices.
The provider participated in a pilot that was put in place by the urology department at Stepping Hill Hospital. They had identified a hotspot within the Primary Care Network (PCN) and text messages were sent from the practice to patients that required a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test to help identify patients with prostate cancer. Text messages were sent to relevant patients, 42% responded to the text message and attended for the blood test to the check the PSA levels of which 14% were then referred to the hospital for further investigation. As a result of this pilot, 3 patients’ cancer was detected and treatment was successful.
 

We did not look at Consent to care and treatment during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.