In the past week, CQC has published a further 96 reports on the quality of care provided by GP practices that have been inspected by specialist teams of inspectors.
Under CQC’s new programme of inspections, all of England’s GP practices are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
The Chief Inspector of General Practice has found another 68 practices to be Good, 14 to Require Improvement, two to be Outstanding and four to be Inadequate following recent inspections by the Care Quality Commission. Eight reports were focused inspections which are not rated.
The total number of practices rated Outstanding is now 278. The total number of practices that have exited Special Measures is now 100.
Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice, said:
“After reporting on more than 6,000 inspections we have found that most care is good – with over 200 practices now rated Outstanding. That means that over 1 million patients in England currently receive care from practices which we have rated Outstanding. What’s enormously encouraging is that our inspections are driving improvement – 90% of practices that we have re-inspected have improved since last October. Through their hard work and dedication, practices are making positive changes to the care they deliver.
“However, we still see evidence of too much poor care. Since we began inspecting GP practices in October 2014 we have found over 200 practices to be Inadequate. While this is a minority, this still amounts to over half a million patients in England who were not receiving the basic standards of care that they should be able to expect from their GP practice. I am glad to say that we have increasingly found that most practices that are placed in special measures use the support that is on offer to meet those standards.”
GP Practices listed by CCG area and rating:
- Bramcote Surgery, Nottingham West: Outstanding
- Shinwell Medical Centre, Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield: Outstanding
- Beaumont Lodge Medical Practice, Leicester City: Good
- Berinsfield Health Centre, Oxfordshire: Good
- Brigstock Medical Centre, Croydon: Good
- Canterbury Medical Practice, Canterbury and Coastal: Good
- Child and Family Doctors Surgery, Barking and Dagenham: Good
- City Walls and Saughall Medical Centres, West Cheshire: Good
- Dr Atchison and Partners, Portsmouth: Good
- Dr Barretto & Partners, Thornton Heath Health Centre, Croydon: Good
- Dr Kamal Gupta, Wigan Borough: Good
- Dr Padma Prasad, Barking and Dagenham: Good
- Dr Philip Soares, Redbridge: Good
- Dr R. Samuel and Dr S. Khan, Newham: Good
- Dr Reidy & Partners, Chiltern: Good
- Dr Schultz and Partners, Mid Essex: Good
- Dr Y Thankey & Dr A Kachhia, Warwickshire North: Good
- Dr Zulfikar Moghul, Redbridge: Good
- Dr's P L & S Kaul and Dr G K Gill, Walsall: Good
- East End Medical Centre, Newham: Good
- Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, Redbridge: Good
- Grand Drive Surgery, Merton: Good
- Guardian Medical Centre, Warrington: Good
- Hampshire Doctors On Call, Southampton: Good
- Handsworth Wood Medical Centre, Sandwell and West Birmingham: Good
- Hastings Old Town Surgery, Hastings and Rother: Good
- Heathfield Family Centre, Sandwell and West Birmingham: Good
- Higham Hill Medical Centre, Waltham Forest: Good
- Hightown Surgery, Oxfordshire: Good
- Lynwood Medical Centre, Havering: Good
- Manor Park Medical Centre, Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford: Good
- Middle Chare Medical Group, North Durham: Good
- Middle Chare Medical Group, North Durham: Good
- Millbarn Medical Centre, Chiltern: Good
- Monkfield Medical Practice, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Good
- New Dover Road Surgery, Canterbury and Coastal: Good
- New Milton Health Centre, West Hampshire: Good
- Parklands Surgery, Coastal West Sussex: Good
- Partnership Primary Care Centre, Islington: Good
- Peeler House Surgery, East Riding of Yorkshire: Good
- Penny's Hill Practice, Dorset: Good
- Porters Avenue Doctors Surgery, Barking and Dagenham: Good
- Queenstown Road Medical Practice, Lambeth: Good
- Reading Walk-in Health Centre, South Reading: Good
- Revel Surgery, Coventry and Rugby: Good
- Sidcup Medical Centre, Bexley: Good
- Somerton House Surgery, Bath and North East Somerset: Good
- Springfield Surgery, Birmingham South and Central: Good
- Stockton NHS Healthcare Centre, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees: Good
- Tangmere Medical Centre, Coastal West Sussex: Good
- The Farley Road Medical Practice, Croydon: Good
- The Flowers Health Centre, Sheffield: Good
- The Orchard Surgery, West Kent: Good
- The Petersfield Medical Practice, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Good
- The Robert Darbishire Practice, Central Manchester: Good
- The Shaftesbury Medical Centre, Harrow: Good
- The Shaikh Partnership, Hull: Good
- The Surgery, Warrington: Good
- The Whitswood Practice, Central Manchester: Good
- The Wilson Health Centre, Merton: Good
- Timperley Health Centre - Westwood, Trafford: Good
- Vineyard Hill Surgery, Merton: Good
- Wanstead Place Surgery, Redbridge: Good
- Weelsby View Health Centre - Drs Chalmers and Meier, North East Lincolnshire: Good
- West Heath Primary Care Centre, Birmingham South and Central: Good
- Westerham Practice, West Kent: Good
- Wideopen Medical Centre, North Tyneside: Good
- Wordsworth Health Centre, Newham: Good
- Brunswick Place Medical Centre, Camden: Requires improvement
- Custom House Medical, Teaching and Training Practice, Newham: Requires improvement
- Dr Andrew Whitfield, North East Hampshire and Farnham: Requires improvement
- Dr Prabir Das Gupta, Haringey: Requires improvement
- Dr Taylor, Dr Hofmann, Dr Idowu and Dr Ghosh, West Kent: Requires improvement
- Dr Winston Solomon, Redbridge: Requires improvement
- Phoenix Surgery, Swindon: Requires improvement
- Roman Way Medical Centre, Islington: Requires improvement
- Sellindge Surgery, South Kent Coast: Requires improvement
- St Peter's Surgery, Thanet: Requires improvement
- Summerfield Primary Care Centre, Sandwell and West Birmingham: Requires improvement
- Summerfield Primary Care Practice, Sandwell and West Birmingham: Requires improvement
- Sydenham House Medical Centre, Ashford: Requires improvement
- The Limes Medical Centre, Birmingham South and Central: Requires improvement
- Dr Khin Thanda, Greater Preston: Inadequate
- Moxley Medical Centre, Walsall: Inadequate
- Silver Springs Medical Practice, Hastings and Rother: Inadequate
- South Reading Surgery, South Reading: Inadequate
- Billinge Medical Practice, St Helens: Focused inspection*
- Chiltern House Medical Centre, Chiltern: Focused inspection*
- Dipple Surgery, Basildon and Brentwood: Focused inspection*
- Hightown Surgery, Oxfordshire: Focused inspection*
- Launceston Medical Centre, Kernow: Focused inspection*
- Lowmoor Road Surgery, Mansfield and Ashfield: Focused inspection*
- Oundle, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Focused inspection*
- Stonecroft Medical Centre, Sheffield: Focused inspection*
- Wickhambrook Surgery, West Suffolk: Focused inspection*
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