We carried out a review of the data available to us about Dr Devadeep Gupta 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.
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We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Devadeep Gupta on 15 December 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.
The practice was previously inspected on 19 Feb 2015. Following that inspection the practice was rated as good for caring, effective and responsive services and required improvement in safe and well led.
Three compliance actions were issued as the practice was not meeting the legislation in place at that time for the following:
Following this re-inspection on 15 December 2016 our key findings across all the areas inspected were as follows:
Staff had undertaken training to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience they needed to deliver effective care and treatment.
The areas where the provider should make improvement are :
In relation to managing reviews of medication the practice should consider using review dates to improve the system they currently have in place.
In relation to health and safety which is managed by NHS property services, the practice should keep a record of all up to date documentation.
We saw an area of outstanding practice :
The practice were involved in a CCG initiative to carry out C-reactive protein (CRP) testing at the surgery. This was a blood test marker for inflammation in the body providing an early indication of whether an infection was viral or bacterial. The test enabled the practice to immediately detect and offer reassurance to their patients when antibiotics would not be effective treatment and also to reduce the number of wrongly prescribed antibiotic medicines. The practice could evidence a reduction in the number of antibiotics that were prescribed and said that feedback from patients was positive in this respect.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Devadeep Gupta, Pennine Surgery on 19 February 2015. Overall the practice is rated as requires improvement.
Specifically, we found the practice to be good for providing effective, caring and responsive services. It required improvement for providing safe and well led services which impacted in other areas such as effective.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
The areas where the provider must make improvements are:
In addition the provider should:
Chief Inspector of General Practice
Patient electronic records were available to staff in all consulting and treatment rooms and patients we spoke with confirmed their medical information was read and updated during the consultation.
The practice had up to date 'child protection' and 'vulnerable adult' policies and procedures in place. Staff we spoke with told us they had received training and read the policies and procedures.
The consulting and treatment rooms appeared clean and well lit. Procedures for the safe storage and disposal of needles and waste products were evident in order to protect the staff and patients from harm. These included wall mounted 'sharps' boxes and foot operated clinical waste bins.
We were shown around the practice and observed it provided spacious waiting, reception and consultation/treatment rooms. Patients we spoke with told us the waiting area was comfortable and they found the call system easy to follow.
The practice had a patient participation group in place. We saw the minutes of a meeting in March which included a request for changes to allow easier access to the consulting rooms for wheelchair users. The practice had acted upon this and changes to the door openings had been made.