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Olive Medical Practice

Overall: Inadequate read more about inspection ratings

3 Lime Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 7EP (01254) 287070

Provided and run by:
Olive Medical Practice

Important: The provider of this service changed. See old profile
Important:

We served two warning notice on Olive Medical Practice on 24/07/2025 for failing to meet the regulations related to safe care and treatment and good governance at Olive Medical Practice.

Assessment report published 10 February 2026

Ratings

  • Overall

    Inadequate

  • Safe

    Inadequate

  • Effective

    Requires improvement

  • Caring

    Requires improvement

  • Responsive

    Requires improvement

  • Well-led

    Inadequate

Our view of the service

Date of Assessment: 16 January 2026 to 17 January 2026. Olive Medical Practice is a GP practice and delivers services to approximately 7672 patients under a contract held with NHS England. The National General Practice Profiles states that 68% of patients are Asian, 27% White, and 5% Black, Mixed or Other. Information published by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the 2nd decile (2 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.

We carried out an assessment of Olive Medical Practice in July 2025. The service was rated inadequate and placed into special measures. We took enforcement action in line with our published procedures.

The service runs a circumcision clinic under its registration for the regulated activity ‘surgical procedures’. This was not assessed in July 2025. This assessment was to assess the circumcision clinic aspect of the service only. The ratings and scores in the report published on 29 September 2025 remain unchanged. We did not assess all quality statements under each key question; we only assessed those quality statements directly relating to the circumcision clinic.

We found continued breaches of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment and good governance, and a new breach of regulation in relation to the need for consent. The service remains in special measures.

 

People's experience of this service

We did not assess people’s experience of the service for this inspection. See the report of the inspection dated 7 July 2025 to 10 July 2025 for the current ratings and scores.