Archived: River Lodge Surgery

Updated 16 February 2017

River Lodge Surgery offers primary medical services via a general medical services (GMS) contract to approximately 10,315 registered patients. The practice provides services to a higher number of patients who are aged over 45, when compared with the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) and England average. The practice is in an area with lower deprivation levels compared to the nation average however the practice records some areas of higher levels of deprivation within their catchment area.

The Practice Clinical staff comprises of seven GP Partners (four male and three female), a salaried GP (female), four practice nurses (two point two Whole Time Equivalents (WTE)) and three health care assistants (two point eighteen WTE).

The Practice is supported by a team of administration staff including an office manager, a finance administrator, a prescriptions administrator and reception and secretarial team. Day to day management is undertaken by a practice manager.

The practice runs a number of services for its patients including minor surgery, asthma clinics,child immunisation clinics, diabetes clinics, new patient checks, and weight management support.

Services are provided from:

River Lodge Surgery (Main Surgery)

Lewes

East Sussex

BN7 2RD

And

Anchor Field Surgery (Branch)

30 Anchor Field

Ringmer

Lewes

East Sussex

BN8 5QN

Updated 16 February 2017

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of this practice on 27 January 2016. Breaches of Regulatory requirements were found during that inspection within the safe domain. After the comprehensive inspection, the practice sent us an action plan detailing what they would do to meet the regulatory responsibilities in relation to the following:

• Ensure that all staff undertaking chaperoning duties and who have unsupervised access to patients have undergone a check via the DBS.
• Ensure that they have a record of hand written prescription serial numbers to monitor their use. This must be maintained and up to date.

We undertook this focused inspection on 29 November 2016 to check that the provider had followed their action plan and to confirm that they now met regulatory requirements.

This report only covers our findings in relation to those requirements. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the 'all reports' link for River Lodge Surgery on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

This report should be read in conjunction with the last report published in July 2016.

Our key findings across the areas we inspected were as follows:-

• We saw evidence to confirm that the practice had undertaken Disclosure and Barring Service checks for all staff who had unsupervised access to patients including those who undertook chaperoning duties.
• We saw evidence to demonstrate that the practice had a system for monitoring both hand written and computer generated prescriptions.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

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The practice was rated as good for the care of people with long-term conditions on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.

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The practice was rated as good for the care of families, children and young people on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.

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The practice was rated as good for the care of older people on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.

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The practice was rated as good for the care of working-age people (including those recently retired and students) on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.

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The practice was rated as good for the care of people experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.

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The practice was rated as good for the care of people whose circumstances may make them vulnerable on 27 January 2016. This rating remains unchanged.