20/12/2016
During an inspection looking at part of the service
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Dr Vipan Palta (also known as Auriol Medical Centre) on 28 April 2016. During this inspection we found a breach of legal requirements and the provider was rated as requires improvement under the safe domain. The practice sent to us an action plan detailing what they would do to meet the legal requirements in relation to the following:-
- Ensure all staff undertake mandatory training including Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Safeguarding Children, fire awareness, infection control and information governance.
- Ensure electrical items are PAT tested and medical equipment is calibrated.
- Complete regular fire drills.
We undertook this announced focused inspection on 20 December 2016 to check the provider had followed their action plan and to confirm that they now met legal requirements. The provider was now meeting all requirements and is rated as good under the safe domain.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows
- Staff had undertaken on-line training for topics the practice had considered as mandatory. This included Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Safeguarding Children, fire awareness, infection control and information governance.
- All electrical items had been PAT tested (portable appliance testing) by an independent company and all medical equipment had been calibrated to ensure they worked correctly.
- Staff had undertaken fire drills.
This report only covers our findings in relation to this topic. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection published on the 22 June 2016, by selecting the 'all reports' link for Dr Vipan Palta on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice