Background to this inspection
Updated
3 February 2020
Broken Cross Surgery is located at Waters Green Medical Centre, Sunderland Street
Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6JL.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services, treatment of disease, disorder or injury, surgical procedures and family planning.
Broken Cross Surgery is part of the NHS Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 5,525 patients under the terms of a primary medical services (PMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
The practice has two female GPs, three male GPs, one GP registrar, three practice nurses, administration and reception staff and a practice management team. The practice is part of a local primary network of GP practices.
The National General Practice Profile states that 95% of the practice population is white British. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as eight, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest.verall summary
Updated
3 February 2020
We carried out a comprehensive inspection of Broken Cross Surgery on 28 January 2019. We rated the practice Good overall but Requires Improvement for providing safe services because there were breaches of regulations. The breaches were:
- Regulation 12 Safe Care and Treatment, as some patient group directives (PGDs) for the authorisation of vaccines had not been appropriately signed;
- Regulation 13 Safeguarding, as some clinicians had not received up to date safeguarding training appropriate to their role.
We also recommended that the practice should:
- Review key policies to keep up to date with best practice.
- Update the recruitment process to incorporate an overview of an applicant’s health.
- Review how the lead for infection control keeps up to date with best practice for infection control and prevention.
- Carry out regular fire drills.
At this inspection 13 January 2020, we found that the provider had satisfactorily addressed these areas and therefore the practice is now rated as good for providing safe services.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
- what we found when we inspected
- information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and
- information from the provider, patients, the public and other organisations.
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
Working age people (including those recently retired and students)
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29 March 2019
People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia)
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29 March 2019