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South Milford Surgery

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

The Surgery, High Street, South Milford, Leeds, North Yorkshire, LS25 5AA (01977) 682202

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South Milford Surgery

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During an assessment under our new approach

Date of Assessment: 17 - 19 November 2025.

South Milford Surgery is a GP practice in South Milford. The practice delivers services to 10,639 people under a contract held with NHS England. The practice has branch sites at Micklefield and Thorpe Willoughby. The practice operates a dispensary service from the main site and at the Micklefield branch site.

The provider is registered with the CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.

We inspected and rated this service under our previous methodology in July 2015. The practice was rated Good overall and in all key questions. This assessment was carried out to assess the quality of services being delivered due to the length of time since the previous assessment. The Practice has been rated Good overall and for the key questions of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led.

The National General Practice Profiles states that the ethnicity of the patient population is 97.65% white, 0.6 % Asian, 0.1% Black, 0.8% mixed and 0.2% other Information published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the 9th decile (9 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.

14 July 2015

During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection on 14 July 2015 at South Milford Surgery as part of our comprehensive programme of inspection of primary medical services. We also visited their two branch surgeries in Micklefield and Thorpe Willoughby.

Overall the practice is rated as GOOD.

Specifically, we found the practice provided safe, well-led, effective, caring and responsive services. It was rated as good for all of the population groups.

Our key findings were as follows:

  • Staff understood and fulfilled their responsibilities to raise concerns, and to report incidents and near misses. Information about safety was recorded, monitored, appropriately reviewed and addressed.
  • Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
  • Patients’ needs were assessed and care was planned and delivered following best practice guidance. Staff had received training appropriate to their roles and any further training needs had been identified and planned.
  • Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand.
  • The practice was clean and hygienic

We saw several areas of outstanding practice including:

  • The practice as part of SHIELD (The Selby Area Federation of GP Practices) had won an innovation fund, to develop social prescribing. This fund was used initially to support the local voluntary service to produce an up to date data base of available voluntary social care organisations. Patients were then referred to the most appropriate services.
  • The practice provided minor injuries clinics to avoid unnecessary journeys to the nearest hospital. Information showed there were fewer A & E attendances, compared with other GP practices within the CCG.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice