Updated 5 June 2017
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out a focussed, desk based review inspection at Curzon Avenue Surgery on 4 May 2017. We found the practice to be good for providing safe services and it is rated as good overall.
We previously conducted an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice on 25 August 2016. As a result of our findings, the practice was rated as good for being responsive, effective, caring and well led; and rated as requires improvement for being safe, which resulted in a rating of good overall. At that time, we found that the provider had breached Regulation 12 (1) (Safe care and treatment) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, due to the absence of appropriately signed documentation which would enable the practice nurse to legally administer medicines.
The practice wrote to us to tell us what they would do to make improvements and meet the legal requirements. We undertook this focussed desk based inspection to check that the practice had followed their plan, and to confirm that they had met the legal requirements.
This report only covers our findings in relation to those areas where requirements had not been met. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Curzon Avenue Surgery on our website at www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-545108193.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
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The practice had taken action to ensure that appropriately signed documentation was on file to allow the practice nurse to legally administer medicines.
Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
Chief Inspector of General Practice