We carried out a review of the data available to us about Central Surgery 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 Central Surgery, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Central Surgery on 1 November 2016. The full comprehensive report can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Central Surgery on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
At our previous inspection on 1 November 2016 we rated the practice as ‘good’ overall but as ‘requires improvement’ for safety as we identified breaches of Regulations 12 (Safe care and treatment) of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
This inspection was a desk-based review carried out on 3 March 2017 to confirm that the provider had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches. This report covers our findings in relation to that and additional improvements made since our last inspection. The findings of this inspection were that the provider had taken action to meet the requirements of the last inspection and the service is now rated as good for providing safe services. Our key findings were as follows:
The practice had addressed the issues identified during the previous inspection.
The systems in place for monitoring medicines in fridges had been improved to include regular audits for checking and recording the temperature of the fridges. Policies and procedures had been reviewed with staff to ensure they were up to date in safe practices in maintaining safe temperatures and controlled storage of medications.
We also found that the provider had made a number of improvements where we had identified these. These included;
The practice had reviewed the use of cleaning schedules in clinical areas which included a record and monitoring of the cleaning of medical equipment.
The practice had reviewed the policies and procedures available for staff to ensure they were specific to the practice.
Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Central Surgery, St Helens on 1 November 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
Staff had been trained to deal with medical emergencies and emergency medicines and equipment were available.
Infection control procedures were in place.
Improvements were needed to ensure the safe storage of temperature sensitive medicines and to ensure medicine storage fridges were adequately serviced and maintained.
The areas where the provider must improve are:
The provider must ensure correct procedures are followed if fridge temperatures fall outside of the required range for safe storage of temperature sensitive medicines.
The provider must ensure equipment, in particular the medicines storage fridges are serviced, calibrated and maintained to ensure they remain effective.
The areas where the provider should make improvement are:
Review the use of cleaning schedules to include displaying them in all clinical areas and to include cleaning of medical equipment.
Review policies and procedures to ensure they are localised and specific to the practice.
Chief Inspector of General Practice