Dr Hazim Ahmad Also known as Lawford 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 79 (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 practice offered health checks for people with a learning disability and autistic people and had achieved a high number of these, to help ensure people remained healthy. They undertook NHS health checks for eligible people and had met their target. Additionally, the practice supported people by signposting patients to walking groups and offered focused health awareness days with their primary care network, such as menopause days for women. The practice as part of their primary care network organised an open day for people in a new community, involving local services, to help build community and orientate people new to the area. This received positive feedback. They also offered a winter warmer day at the same place, to support older people in the winter.

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 national targets for the uptake of childhood immunisations except in 1 area where they were just below the target. Staff spoken with were aware of this and consistently took action to recall patients and to speak with them regarding immunisation. The service performed significantly better than the England average in relation to several cancer screening programmes, including screening for breast, bowel and cervical cancer.

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.