Dr Samuel Levenson

Updated 8 February 2019

Dr Samuel Levenson (also known as Limefield Medical Centre) is in Salford, Greater Manchester. Regulated activities are delivered to the patient population from: Newbury Place Health Centre, 55 Rigby Street, Salford, M7 4NX.

The practice has a website that contains information about what they do to support their patient population and the in house and online services offered: www.limefieldmedicalcentre.co.uk

The practice has 5425 registered patients and serves mostly a younger population group.

The practice has a principle lead GP, two long term locum GPs, two practice nurses, three practice pharmacists and a team of administration and reception staff.

Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is in the third least deprived decile (from a possible range of between 1 and 10). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services.

Outside of practice opening times, patients are diverted to the NHS 111 out of hours service. The service operates under a General Medical Services contract and provides the following regulated activities: Maternity and midwifery, Diagnostic and screening procedures, and Treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The GMS contract is the contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering primary care services to local communities.

Updated 8 February 2019

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Samuel Levenson on 15 January 2019 as part of our inspection programme.

At the last comprehensive inspection in March 2018 we rated the practice as good for the key questions caring; and requires improvement for safe, effective, responsive and well led. The overall rating was requires improvement. This was because:

• The practice had not established effective systems and processes to ensure good governance in accordance with the fundamental standards of care.
• The practice had not ensured that persons employed by the service received appropriate training and supervision.

At this inspection, we found that the provider had satisfactorily addressed these areas.

We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:

• What we found when we inspected
• Information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and
• Information from the provider, patients, the public and other organisations.

We have now rated this practice as good overall and good for all population groups.

We found that:

• The practice provided care in a way that kept patients safe and protected them from avoidable harm.
• Patients received effective care and treatment that met their needs.
• Staff dealt with patients with kindness and respect and involved them in decisions about their care.
• The practice organised and delivered services to meet patients’ needs. Patients could access care and treatment in a timely way.
• The way the practice was well-led and managed the delivery of high-quality, person-centre care.

The areas where the provider should make improvements are:

• The practice should consider the need to have the fire alarms tested at the same time each month.

Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGPChief Inspector of General Practice

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