Snaith and Rawcliffe Medical Group

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• 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

We looked for evidence that staff monitored people’s care and treatment and supported them to live healthier lives. At our last assessment, we rated this key question as good. At this assessment, the rating remains the same.

This service scored 75 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.

We did not look at Assessing needs during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.

We did not look at Delivering evidence-based care and treatment during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Effective.

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.

The practice always supported people to manage their health and wellbeing to fully maximise their independence, choice and control. The service supported people to live healthier lives and where possible, reduce their future needs for care and support.

Staff focussed on identifying risks to people’s health, including those in the last 12 months of their lives and those with caring responsibilities. Staff supported national priorities and initiatives to improve population health, including stopping smoking and tackling obesity.

The practice had close connections with their local community, this included setting up a weekly running group. The practice had also recently taken over their local parkrun for a day. All volunteers who ensured the parkrun went ahead were members of staff at the practice. This event was used to promote services available to patients at the practice.

The practice routinely monitored people’s care and treatment to continuously improve it. They ensured outcomes were positive, consistent and met the expectations of people themselves.

The practice had consistently met the World Health Organisation target of 95% for the uptake of childhood immunisations. The latest available data showed that the practice had achieved over 95% uptake for all 5 categories of childhood immunisations. The practice had monthly meetings with health visitors to discuss patients in the local area.

The practice performed better than the England average in relation to several cancer screening programmes, including screening for breast, bowel and cervical cancer. For example, the practice rate for breast screening was 82.3% compared with the national average of 70%. Similarly, they had a 77.2% uptake for bowel screening compared with the national average of 72%. For cervical cancer screening the target is 80% and in the 25 to 49-year-old age group they had achieved 83.6% and in the 50 to 64-year-old age group they had achieved 83.7%.

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.