Islip Surgery

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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

Staff supported people to live healthier lives, monitoring their care and treatment to ensure they received positive and consistent outcomes.

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 supported people to manage their health and wellbeing to 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.

Staff from the practice worked with wider health care teams to support patients with complex needs. We noted the practice had made reasonable adjustments to provide support to vulnerable patients. This included home visits for patients who were unable to attend the practice. Systems were in place to identify individuals with caring responsibilities, who were offered an annual review. All patients with a learning disability were invited to an annual health assessment.

The practice placed a strong focus on continuity of care and proactively promoted health NHS health checks for eligible patients age 40 to 74. Patients were invited to attend these checks to support early identification of health risk and improve prevention care.

Patients could be referred to local smoking cessation services. Also, eligible patients could be referred directly into weight management programme.

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 service met national targets for the uptake of childhood immunisations. The service performed better than the England average in relation to several cancer screening programmes.

The practice improved uptake of childhood immunisations by introducing late evening appointments and offering Saturday clinics once a month.

A self-service blood pressure monitoring station was available within the practice, enabling opportunistic identification of elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular risk and encouraging patient self-management.

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.