We carried out a review of the data available to us about Winterton Medical Practice 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 Winterton Medical Practice, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Winterton Medical Practice on 16 October 2019 as part of our inspection programme.
We carried out an inspection of this service due to the length of time since the last inspection. Following our review of the information available to us, including information provided by the practice, we focused our inspection on the following key questions:
Are services effective?
Are services well led?
Because of the assurance received from our review of information we carried forward the ratings for the following key questions:
Are services safe?
Are services caring?
Are services responsive?
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 except older people which is rated outstanding.
We found that:
We saw one area of outstanding practice:
Whilst we found no breaches of regulations, the provider should:
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 Winterton Medical Practice on 10 February 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Specifically, we found the practice to be good for providing well-led, effective, caring and responsive services. It was also good for providing services for the people with long-term conditions, families, children and young people, working age people (including those recently retired and students), people whose circumstances may make them vulnerable and people experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia). We found the care of older people to be outstanding.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
• Staff understood and fulfilled their responsibilities to raise concerns, and to report incidents and near misses. Information about safety was recorded, monitored, appropriately reviewed and addressed.
• Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
• Patients’ needs were assessed and care was planned and delivered following best practice guidance. Staff had received training appropriate to their roles and any further training needs had been identified and planned.
• Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
• Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand.
• Patients said they found it easy to make an appointment with a named GP and that there was continuity of care, with urgent appointments available the same day.
• The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
• There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
We saw one area of outstanding practice:
The practice provided a community geriatric service which was led by a consultant Geriatrician and supported by a physiotherapist. The aim of the service was to focus on dealing with conditions associated with ageing and the frailty of old age. The practice also provided a falls community assessment clinic and patients who were on the end of life pathway were appointed a named GP who managed their care.
Chief Inspector of General Practice