We carried out a review of the data available to us about Latymer Road 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 Latymer Road Surgery, you can give feedback on this service.
We carried out an announce comprehensive inspection at Latymer Road Surgery in response to concerns highlighted by a whistle-blower. We checked these areas as part of this inspection and found they had been unsubstantiated. Overall, we rated the practice as Good. We rated the practice good for providing safe, effective and well led care, the domains that were reviewed in this inspection.
How we carried out the inspection
Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, taking into account the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our inspections differently.
This inspection was carried out in a way which enabled us to spend a minimum amount of time on site. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.
This included:
Our findings
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated this practice as Good overall
We found that:
The areas where the provider should make improvements are:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
We previously carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Latymer Road Surgery in February 2020 as part of our inspection programme. We rated the practice as Good overall. We rated the practice Good for providing safe, effective, caring and well-led services and requires improvement for providing a responsive service. You can read the full report by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Latymer Road Surgery on our website (www.cqc.org.uk).
We were mindful of the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on our regulatory function. This meant we took account of the exceptional circumstances arising as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic when considering what type of inspection was necessary and proportionate, this was therefore a desk-based inspection. On 3 December 2021, we carried out a desk-based review to confirm that the practice had carried out improvement plans to their service.
We found that the practice had put measures in place for ongoing improvement. The practice is now rated Good for providing responsive services.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:
We have rated responsive as Good because:
Whilst we found no breaches of regulations, the provider should:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
We carried out an announced focussed inspection at the Latymer Road Surgery (the practice) on 26 February 2020 as part of our inspection programme. It was the first inspection of the new service provider. The service was registered with us previously as a partnership of three GPs, which we last inspected in November 2018. It was registered as a service being provided by a sole practitioner in September 2019.
The previous service had been rated requires improvement in relation to Effective care following our inspection in November 2018. Our inspection reports relating to the previous registration can be found by going to https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-547351049 and selecting the Reports tab.
At this inspection we focussed on Effective and two other key questions, Responsive and Well-led. In accordance with our published process regarding continuing regulatory history, newly registered-providers inherit ratings applied to previous service providers.
We have rated the practice as Good overall and in respect of the key questions Effective and Well-led. The rating of Good in respect of the key questions Safe and Caring are inherited from the inspection of the previous service provider in November 2018. We have rated the service as Requires improvement in relation to the key question Responsive because available patient survey data indicates patients have problems accessing services. In accordance with our ratings aggregation principles, the rating also applies to the six population groups.
We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of
We found that:
The areas where the practice should make improvements are
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP
Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care