We carried out a review of the data available to us about Clive 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 Clive Medical Practice, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Clive Medical Practice on 8 December 2015. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice was rated as good overall with requires improvement in providing safe services. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Clive Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk. We undertook a focussed follow up inspection on 11 August 2016 to check that improvements had been made. The practice is rated as good for providing safe services and rated good overall.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Clive Medical Practice on 8 December 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Risks to patients were assessed and well managed, with some exceptions for example recruitment checks.
The practice’s dispensary provided pharmacy support in response to the needs of their local community.
The areas where the provider must make improvement are:
Ensure all health and safety risk assessments are completed as appropriate for a healthcare setting, including fire safety records and legionella risk assessments.
Ensure recruitment arrangements include all necessary employment checks for all staff including locum GPs, include their health declaration documentation, indemnity documents where applicable and that staff have received the appropriate immunisations according to the roles that they undertake.
Ensure that staff who provide a chaperone service have attained chaperone training and have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check completed, or a documented decision/risk assessment as to why a DBS check is not required.
The areas where the provider should make improvement are:
Ensure there is management oversight to ensure that all staff complete the training necessary to undertake their role. Nurses to complete safeguarding adults and children training to the appropriate level, the lead in infection control to complete training appropriate for the role, ensure all staff complete basic life support training.
Ensure all staff are in receipt of an annual appraisal.
Complete an annual infection control audit.
Consider a written consent form process for surgical procedures such as excisions.
Consider documenting the practice business plan and strategy.
Consider automated doors at the entrance to the practice for patients with physical disability.