Beacon Medical Services

Updated 23 April 2020

Beacon Medical Services is an independent provider of GP services and offers a range of services to all patients. The practice has a patient population of 1680 patients.

The practice offers general medical services for their population and is based on the outskirts of Doncaster town centre.

The provider, Don Hezseltine, is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide services at Beacon Medical Services, 3 Heather Court, Shaw Wood Way, Doncaster, DN2 5YL. The property is rented by the provider and consists of a patient waiting room, an administration office and a consulting room in a single storey building. There are car parking spaces outside the practice for patients, including a disabled parking space.

The practice is open from 8am until 6pm Monday to Friday. An out-of-hour’s service is provided at the request of the patient. Appointments are booked directly with the GP who is available via a mobile phone.

How we inspected this service

During our visit we:

• Spoke with the GP and the practice manager.

We reviewed the improvements made in the following key question:

• Is it safe?

This question therefore formed the framework for the areas we looked at during the inspection.

Updated 23 April 2020

This service is rated as Good overall.

We carried out an announced focused inspection at Beacon Medical Services on 9 March 2020 to follow up recommendations that had been made at the last inspection. (Previous inspections 11 October 2017, 13 April 2018 and 18 June 2019).

The key question inspected was, are services safe? and this key question is now rated as Good

CQC inspected the service on 18 June 2019 and recommended the provider make improvements regarding:

• Establishing patient’s identity when registering for the service and parental authority.
• Safeguarding and clinical refresher training relevant to the role and treatments provided.
• Chaperone training for staff who undertake this role.
• Infection prevention and control in relation to use of the trolley and sink in the treatment room and provision of hand drying facilities.
• Legionella risk assessment.
• Risk assessment for provision of oxygen in line with the Resuscitation Council UK guidelines.
• Management of safety alerts.
• Prescribing audits.

We reviewed these areas as part of the focused inspection on 9 March 2020 and found they had been satisfactorily addressed.

Beacon Medical Services is an independent provider of GP services and offers a range of services to patients (adults, children and young people). The practice has a patient population of 1680 patients. The practice offers general medical services for their population and is based on the outskirts of Doncaster town centre.

Our key findings were:

• The provider had made improvements and the practice provided care in a way that kept patients safe and protected them from avoidable harm.
• We also found training updates relevant to the care provided, such as childhood immunisations and cervical screening updates, had been undertaken by the GP. Systems had also been put in place to ensure training was kept up to date in future.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care