Minster Surgery

Updated 30 November 2018

Minister surgery is a rural practice providing services to 8402 patients. They have below the local average for patients aged 0 to 30 years of age. There are five GP partners, two female and three male GPs. There is a female salaried GP, one nurse practitioner, four practice nurses and a health care assistant. The team is overseen by the practice manager and the assistant practice manager. Minster Surgery is also a training practice and at the time of the inspection they had two registrars employed.

The services are provided from Minster Surgery, 75 High Street, Minster, Ramsgate, Kent CT12 4AB. The practice was able to offer dispensing services to those patients on the practice list who lived more than one mile (1.6km) from their nearest pharmacy.

The practice does not provide out of hours provision for their patients this is commissioned from IC24.

The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the following regulated activities;

Diagnostics and screening

Family planning

Surgical procedures

Treatment of Disease, disorder and injury

Maternity and midwifery

Updated 30 November 2018

This practice is rated as good. (Previous inspection 15 May 2018 – rated good overall).

The practice was last inspected on 15 May 2018 and the key questions were rated as:

Are services safe? – good

Are services effective? – good

Are services caring? – good

Are services responsive? – good

Are services well-led? – requires improvement

We carried out an announced focused inspection at Minster Surgery on 6 November 2018. We followed up on previous areas identified for improvement during our inspection on 15 May 2018. The practice was required to establish effective systems and processes to ensure good governance in accordance with the fundamental standards of care.

At this inspection we found:

• The practice had systems in place to identify, manage and mitigate risks. They identified learning opportunities and shared this with their extended team to improve practice.
• The practice had appropriate systems to safeguard children and vulnerable adults from abuse.
• The practice had established systems for following up on patients who failed to collect their medicines from the dispensary.
• The practice had conducted risk assessments and had followed up on actions to mitigate the risks to patients.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
Chief Inspector of General Practice

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