Updated 31 May 2017
We did a comprehensive inspection at this practice on 14 December 2016 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. We found the registered provider was providing safe, effective, caring and responsive care in accordance with relevant regulations.
We judged that the practice was not providing well-led care in accordance with regulation 17 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
You can read our report of that inspection by selecting the 'all reports' link for Smith, Holloman and Associates on our website www.cqc.org.uk.
At a comprehensive inspection we always ask the following five questions to get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment:
- Is it safe?
- Is it effective?
- Is it caring?
- Is it responsive to people’s needs?
- Is it well-led?
When one or more of the questions is not met, we check whether the provider has made the required improvements by doing a focused inspection after a suitable time interval.
At a focused inspection of Smith, Holloman and Associates on 5 May 2017 we checked whether the service was now well-led and whether the provider was meeting regulation 17.
Are services well-led?
We found that the provider had taken effective action to deal with the shortfalls we found at our inspection on 14 December 2016. We found that this practice was providing well-led care in accordance with regulation 17.