Archived: Dr Pradeep Kumar Singh

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

On 14 January 2015 we conducted an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice known as Fryerns Medical Centre which is registered to Dr Pradeep Kumar Singh. We found the practice overall required improvement.

Specifically, we found the practice good for providing effective, responsive and caring services. Improvements were required for providing safe and well led services.

Our key findings were as follows:

• We found the practice was visibly clean and tidy and there were systems in place to identify and prevent infection.
• We found strong and supportive leadership by the GP and practice manager. Staff we spoke with enjoyed their working environment and felt valued, supported and developed by the practice.
• Patients told us they received a responsive and individual service. They could access appointments with the GP and practice nurses and were treated with politeness and courtesy by staff.
• Medicines in the treatment rooms and medicine refrigerators were stored securely and were only accessible to authorised staff.

However, there were also areas of practice where the provider needs to make improvements.

Importantly, the provider must:

• Ensure risk assessments are conducted and equipment suitability maintained and safe to use e.g. fire assessments and equipment maintenance, legionella risk assessments and testing is undertaken and ensure manual prescribing is recorded on the electronic patient record to ensure completeness and mitigate the risk of potential duplicate prescribing.

• Carry out appropriate checks to ensure staff members suitability for their role and risks are assessed for staff who are not trained in undertaking chaperone duties.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice