We carried out a review of the data available to us about The Sele Medical Practice 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.
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We carried out an inspection of this service following our annual review of the information available to us including information provided by the practice. Our review indicated that there may have been a significant change to the quality of care provided since the last inspection.
This inspection focused on the following key questions:
Because of the assurance received from our review of information we carried forward the ratings for the following key questions:
The practice is rated good for providing safe services, and outstanding for responsiveness.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated this practice as good overall and good for all population groups.
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
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at The Sele Medical Practice on 16 February 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good. The practice is rated outstanding for responsive services and good for providing safe, effective, caring and well-led services.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
Staff understood and fulfilled their responsibilities to raise concerns, and report incidents and near misses.
Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment. Scores from the National GP Patient Survey were higher than local and national averages, for example, 97% of patients said the last GP they saw was good at explaining tests and treatments compared to the CCG average of 89.3% and the national average of 86%.
The practice worked closely with other organisations and with the local community in planning how services were provided to ensure that they meet patients’ needs, for example, they were the sole GP service providing care to a specialist learning disability residential unit for people with severe behavioural and mental health problems.
We saw three areas of outstanding practice which included:
The practice carried out a high number of clinical audits to monitor and improve patient care. They could show how this had impacted on patient care.
The practice provided health education evenings for patients to promote good health. The sessions were three or four times a year and various healthcare topics were presented by one of the GPs or a health care professional, for approximately 45 minutes. These had been held since 2012 and attendances were between nine and 45 patients. Topics included, for example, cholesterol, eye conditions and the next session was on bowel cancer.
The practice were responsive to vulnerable people they worked closely with other organisations and with the local community in planning how services were provided to ensure that they meet patients’ needs, for example, they were the sole GP service providing care to a specialist learning disability residential unit for people with severe behavioural and mental health problems.
The area where the provider should make improvements is:
Reconsider training for staff, they had not received health and safety or equality and diversity training and some staff had not received safeguarding adults training.
Chief Inspector of General Practice