26 September 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 Holly Medical Group on 24 February 2015. Overall, we rated the practice as good. However, there was a breach of legal requirement. In particular we found that the safeguarding lead and two nurses had not been undergone a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The DBS carries out checks to identify whether a person has a criminal record or is on an official list of people barred from working in roles where they may have contact with children or adults who may be vulnerable.
After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to meet the above regulation. We carried out a desk based focused inspection on 26 September 2016 to check whether the provider had taken steps to comply with the above legal requirement. 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 Holly Medical Group on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
- The practice had complied with the requirement notice we set following the last inspection. We found that the practice had ensured that DBS checks had been completed for all clinical staff that had patient contact.
Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
Chief Inspector of General Practice