Barton House Group Practice

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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 staff involved people in decisions about their care and treatment and provided them with advice and support. 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 2025 National GP Patient Survey results showed people were informed about their care and treatment and what the next steps were.

Staff supported people to manage their health and wellbeing. They focused on prevention and early intervention to help reduce future care needs. Patients were actively encouraged and invited for their NHS health checks. This was demonstrated by achieving the 100% target for their NHS contract.

Clinical staff provided targeted weight loss advice. The staff utilised further weight management referral pathways. For example, Healthier Together Hackney which was a healthy lifestyle programme commissioned by the London Borough of Hackney, designed to support patients to lose weight and get active,

The Together Better service operated by the Volunteer Centre Hackney, provided daily free activities at the GP Surgery to help patients with social isolation and mental health. The activities included walking, mindfulness, book and gardening groups. In addition, long covid, cancer support and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) groups.

Staff identified and responded to health risks such as end-of-life needs, emerging long-term conditions, carer responsibilities and supported national health priorities, including smoking cessation.

Staff referred patients to a social prescriber, to help people address practical, social, and emotional needs, where that affected patients’ health and wellbeing.

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

In 2024–2025, the practice nearly achieved the WHO target of 95% uptake for childhood immunisations. Unverified data for 2025–2026 suggests a decline, with uptake falling between 81% and 90%. Staff identified some patient’s hesitancy to receive vaccines as a key factor in its immunisation uptake performance data and responded by undertaking additional training. improving patient identification and recall systems and offering telephone consultations with health visitors to address concerns.

The practice unverified data for the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 demonstrated it had met quality outcome framework targets for long term condition reviews for asthma, atrial fibrillation, coronary heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. In addition, the service had completed 95% of care plan reviews for people with a mental illness and 84% of people living with dementia.

The practice had carried out clinical and management audits in 2025. These covered AE attendances, and chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and a review of housebound patient consultations. The aim of the CKD audit was to improve staff identification of patients, monitor of blood results and review and mitigate any risks.

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.