Sunlight Group Practice Also known as Parkfield Medical Centre

Updated 13 June 2016

Sunlight Group Practice is situated in a deprived area of Wirral and is registered with CQC to provide primary care services, which include access to GPs, family planning, ante and post-natal care.

The practice has a General Medical Services (GMS) contract with a registered list size of 7469 patients (at the time of inspection). The practice has three female and one male GP partners, a male and female salaried GPs, a nurse practitioner and two practice nurses and a healthcare assistant. The practice also has a practice manager, office manager and a number of administration and reception staff. The practice is a training practice.

The practice is open 8am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday and provides extended hours Monday and Thursday 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Appointments are bookable in person, on line or by telephone. Home visits and telephone consultations are available for patients who required them, including housebound patients and older patients. There are also arrangements to ensure patients received urgent medical assistance when the practice was closed. Out of hours patients are asked to contact the NHS 111 service to obtain healthcare advice or treatment.

Updated 13 June 2016

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Sunlight Group Practice on 29 April 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.

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

• There was an open and transparent approach to safety and an effective system in place for reporting and recording significant events.
• Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
• Staff assessed patients’ needs and delivered care in line with current evidence based guidance. Staff had been trained to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective care and treatment.
• Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
• Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand. Improvements were made to the quality of care as a result of complaints and concerns.
• The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
• There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.

• The provider was aware of and complied with the requirements of the duty of candour (The duty of candour is a set of specific legal requirements that providers of services must follow when things go wrong with care and treatment).

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

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The practice is rated as good for the care of people with long-term conditions.

• Nursing staff had lead roles in chronic disease management and patients at risk of hospital admission were identified as a priority.

• The percentage of patients on the diabetes register, with a record of a foot examination and risk classification within the preceding 12 months was 96% compared to the national average of 88%.

• Longer appointments and home visits were available when needed.

• All these patients had a named GP and a structured annual review to check their health and medicines needs were being met. For those patients with the most complex needs, the named GP worked with relevant health and care professionals to deliver a multidisciplinary package of care.

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The practice is rated as good for the care of families, children and young people.

• There were systems in place to identify and follow up children living in disadvantaged circumstances. Since the inspection the practice had implemented a system to ensure children and young people who had a high number of A&E and walk in centre attendances were monitored and where necessary reviewed. Immunisation rates were in line with national rates for all standard childhood immunisations.

• Patients told us that children and young people were treated in an age-appropriate way and were recognised as individuals, and we saw evidence to confirm this.
• The percentage of women aged 25-64 whose notes record that a cervical screening test has been performed in the preceding 5 years was 77% and was comparable to the national average of 82%.

• Appointments were available outside of school hours and the premises were suitable for children and babies.

• We saw positive examples of joint working with midwives, health visitors and school nurses.

• The practice provided designated sexual health and family planning clinics.

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The practice is rated as good for the care of older people.

• The practice offered proactive, personalised care to meet the needs of the older people in its population.

• The practice was responsive to the needs of older people, and offered home visits and urgent appointments for those with enhanced needs.

• The practice has a clinical lead for patients over 75 years, and used the CCG’s risk stratification tool to help identify patients at risk of unplanned hospital admissions due to frailty and poor chronic disease management.

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The practice is rated as good for the care of working-age people (including those recently retired and students).

• The needs of the working age population, those recently retired and students had been identified and the practice had adjusted the services it offered to ensure these were accessible, flexible and offered continuity of care.

• The practice was proactive in offering online services as well as a full range of health promotion and screening that reflected the needs for this age group.

• The practice provided extended hours two evenings a week to support this patients group.

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The practice is rated as good for the care of people experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia).

• The percentage of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and other psychoses who have a comprehensive, agreed care plan documented in

  the record, in the preceding 12 months was 90% which was comparable to the nation average of 88%.

• The practice regularly worked with multi-disciplinary teams in the case management of patients experiencing poor mental health, including those with dementia.

• The practice carried out advance care planning for patients with dementia.

• The practice had told patients experiencing poor mental health about how to access various support groups and voluntary organisations.

• The practice had a system in place to follow up patients who had attended accident and emergency where they may have been experiencing poor mental health.

• Staff had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and dementia.

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The practice is rated as good for the care of people whose circumstances may make them vulnerable.

• The practice held a register of patients living in vulnerable circumstances including older people who live alone, carers and those with a learning disability.

• The practice offered longer appointments for patients with a learning disability.

• The practice regularly worked with other health care professionals in the case management of vulnerable patients.

• The practice informed vulnerable patients about how to access various support groups and voluntary organisations.

• Staff knew how to recognise signs of abuse in vulnerable adults and children. Staff were aware of their responsibilities regarding information sharing, documentation of safeguarding concerns and how to contact relevant agencies in normal working hours and out of hours.