We carried out a review of the data available to us about Yealm Medical Centre 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.
If you have concerns about Yealm Medical Centre, you can give feedback on this service.
Following our annual regulatory review of the information available to us, we inspected this service on 19 November 2019. The service was last inspected in August 2017. It was rated as good for each of the five key questions and rated good overall. This inspection looked at the following key questions; effective and well led.
Because of the assurance received from our review of information we carried forward the ratings for the following key questions: safe, caring and responsive.
Are services effective? Good
Are services well-led? Good
As part of our inspection process, we also look at the quality of care for specific population groups. The population groups are rated as:
Older People – Good
People with long-term conditions – Good
Families, children and young people – Good
Working age people (including those recently retired and students – Good.
People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable – Good
People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) – Good
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:
However, the areas where the practice should make improvement are:
We found an area of outstanding practice
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 Yealm Medical Centre on 9 August 2017. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
We saw areas of outstanding practice:
There was a proactive approach to understand the needs of their patients. Examples being:
The practice had recently won recognition as the highest recruiting practice to a national study in the early detection of arthritis in an early arthritis study. The Practice had been conducting research studies for around five years and was committed to providing its patients with a high standard of care and attention. These studies involved approximatley 600 patients and included diabetes, cancer detection and asthma treatment for children. Clinical trials are research studies in which people help test treatments or approaches to prevention or diagnosis of health conditions to evaluate whether they are safe and effective.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We undertook a comprehensive inspection of Yealm medical centre in Yealmpton on 25 November 2014. Yealm Medical Centre is located at Market Street, Yealmpton Devon PL8 2EA and provides primary medical services to people living in the surrounding villages. The practice provides services to a diverse population and age group.
Our key findings were as follows:
The Yealm Medical Centre operated a weekday service for over 5,400 patients in the Yealmpton area. The practice was responsible for providing primary care, which included access to GPs, minor surgery, family planning, antenatal and postnatal care as well as other clinical services.
Patients who use the practice had access to community staff including district nurses, community psychiatric nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists, counsellors, and midwives.
Patients we spoke to and the comment cards submitted confirmed that patients were happy with the service and the professionalism of the GPs and nurses. The practice was visibly clean and there were effective infection control procedures in place.
We found that staff were well supported and the practice was well led with a clear vision and objectives. Staff had a sound knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and vulnerable adults.
Care and treatment was being delivered in line with current published best practice. Patient’s individual needs were consistently met in a timely manner.
All the patients we spoke to during our inspection were very complimentary about the service and the manner in which they were cared for. Recruitment, pre-employment checks, induction and appraisal processes were in place. Staff had received training appropriate to their roles and further training needs had been identified and planned.
Chief Inspector of General Practice