- GP practice
Sidley Medical Practice Also known as Dr Lawton & Partners
We suspended Sidley Medical Practice’s registration on 14 April 2025 and have authorised a further extension to their suspension until 14 October 2026. We found serious concerns that included but was not limited to; Unsafe care and treatment in relation to people could not access services, clinical assessment, medicines management, safeguarding, staffing, premises and equipment, good governance and duty of candour at Sidley Medical Practice and their branch surgery at Albert Road.
Assessment report published 10 January 2025
Contents
On this page
- Overview
- Assessing needs
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment
- How staff, teams and services work together
- Supporting people to live healthier lives
- Monitoring and improving outcomes
- Consent to care and treatment
Effective
We assessed 2 quality statements from this key question. We have combined the scores for this area with scores based on the rating from the last inspection, which was good. Our rating for this key question is Requires Improvement . We found that people’s care and treatment was not always effectively assessed and reviewed.
We found a breach of regulations for the Effective key question and have told the provider to take action.
This service scored 67 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.
Assessing needs
We did not receive any patient feedback specific to this quality statement.
Staff and leaders told us they had processes to ensure that risks to people’s health and wellbeing identified early and to prevent deterioration. However, our clinical searches showed some of these processes were not working as intended.
Our clinical searches showed that processes didn’t always work as intended. For example, the health needs for people at risk of diabetes and were not always identified early so that deterioration could be prevented.
Delivering evidence-based care and treatment
We did not receive any patient feedback specific to this quality statement.
Staff and leaders told us they had processes to ensure that they kept up to date with legislation and current evidence-based practice. However, our clinical searches showed some of these processes were not working as intended.
However, our clinical searches showed that patients health was not always monitored in line with current evidence based practice and guidelines. For example those taking medicines that required monitoring and those with long-term conditions.
How staff, teams and services work together
We did not look at How staff, teams and services work together during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.
Supporting people to live healthier lives
We did not look at Supporting people to live healthier lives during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.
Monitoring and improving outcomes
We did not look at Monitoring and improving outcomes during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.
Consent to care and treatment
We did not look at Consent to care and treatment during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.