Woodview Medical 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 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 service 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. Information about these initiatives was available on the practice website. There was a member of staff trained in smoking cessation, who regularly contacted service users who smoked to offer support.

The service 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 performed better than the England average in relation to cervical screening uptake. Practice leaders routinely monitored data such as opioid and antibiotic prescribing figures with the aim of reducing prescribing rates. Staff contacted patients by phone who had been referred on a fast-track pathway who they could see had not yet been given a follow up appointment by another service. Staff also contacted parents by phone who had not brought children to routine immunisation appointments.

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.