We carried out a review of the data available to us about Dr Anoop Sahal on 6 July 2023. We have not found evidence that we need to carry out an inspection or reassess our rating at this stage.
This could change at any time if we receive new information. We will continue to monitor data about this service.
If you have concerns about Dr Anoop Sahal, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out a focused desktop review at the practice of Dr Anoop Sahal on 7 May 2021. The practice is now rated ‘good, for providing ’well led’ services and remains rated ‘good’ overall. The population group families, children and young people is now rated as ‘good’.
Safe - Good
Effective - Good
Caring - Good
Responsive - Good
Well-led - Good
Following our previous focused inspection on 5 February 2020 where we focused on the key questions effective and well led, the practice was rated ‘good’ overall. The key questions safe, caring and responsive were not rated at the inspection on 5 February 2020 and the ratings of ‘good’ from an inspection on 21 December 2016 were carried forward. Effective was rated ‘good’ but rated ‘requires Improvement’ for providing well led services.
The full reports for previous inspections can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Dr Anoop Sahal on our website at www.cqc.org.uk
Why we carried out this review
This inspection was a focused desk top review carried out on 7 May 2021 to confirm that the practice had carried out its plan to meet the requirements in relation to those identified in our previous inspection on 5 February 2020. This report covers our findings in relation to
those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.
How we carried out the review
Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, taking into account the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our inspections and reviews differently.
This review was carried out in a way which enabled us to analyse information without spending time on site. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.
This included
Our findings
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated this practice as Good overall with the key question well led and population group Families, children and young people now rated as Good.
We found that:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
Dr Anoop Sahal had a full comprehensive inspection on 14 January 2015 when it was rated good overall but required improvement for the key question of safe because staff had not been appropriately trained in safeguarding. On 21 December 2016 we undertook a desk top review of documents submitted to the Commission providing assurance that the appropriate training had been completed. At that time the practice was rated good for the key question safe and remained good overall and for all the other key questions.
We carried out an announced focused inspection at Dr Anoop Sahal on 5 February 2020 as part of our inspection programme. We focused our inspection on the key questions effective and well led. The key questions safe, caring and responsive were not rated at this inspection and the ratings of good from the last inspection were carried forward. We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated this practice as good overall. The key questions of safe, caring, and responsive were not rated at this inspection and the previous rating has not changed. We rated the key question effective as good.
The key question well led is rated requires improvement because the governance arrangements do not ensure that fire risks are sufficiently identified, understood and managed.
The population groups are all rated good with the exception of families and young people which is rated requires improvement because of the very low rate of uptake in child immunisations.
We found that:
The provider must
The provider should:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
This is a focused desk top review of evidence supplied by Dr Anoop Sahal for one area within the key question safe.
At this inspection we found the practice to be good in providing safe services. Overall, the practice is rated as good.
The practice was previously inspected on 14 January 2015. The inspection was a comprehensive inspection under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. At that inspection, the practice was rated good overall. However, within the key question safe, safeguarding was identified as requires improvement, as the practice was not meeting the legislation at that time. The areas where the practice was told they must make improvements were as follows :
Regulation 11 HSCA 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010 Safeguarding people who use services from abuse
Dr Anoop Sahal who was the safeguarding lead, had completed training to level three, but this was due to be updated in November 2014. We saw no other members of staff including the practice nurse had completed safeguarding training for children or adults. DBS checks had not been carried out for the practice nurse.
The practice has submitted to the CQC, a range of documents which demonstrates they are now meeting the requirements of Regulation 11 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (now Regulation 13) Regulations 2014.
In addition there were areas where the practice were told they should make improvements. These were as follows :
Ensure full audits of practice were undertaken, including completed clinical audit cycles;
Ensure all staff had appropriate policies, procedures and guidance in place for assessing patients under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
The practice has submitted to the CQC, a range of documents which demonstrates they have made these suggested improvements.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Anoop Sahal on 14th January 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Specifically, we found the practice to be good for providing well-led, effective, caring and responsive services; It required improvement for providing safe services.
During our inspection the comments from patients were positive about the care and treatment they received. In the national GP survey 2014 99% of respondents describe their overall experience of this practice as good, 12% above the national average.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
However there were areas of practice where the provider needs to make improvements.
Importantly the provider must:
Ensure the GP completed level three safeguarding (children) update and all staff completed safeguarding training for children or adults.
Ensure all clinical staff have undergone disclosure and barring (DBS) service checks.
In addition the provider should:
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice