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Wimbledon Medical Practice

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

79 Pelham Road, London, SW19 1NX (020) 8542 2827

Provided and run by:
Dr Ladan Sharifi

Important: This service was previously registered at a different address - see old profile

All Inspections

6 July 2023

During a monthly review of our data

We carried out a review of the data available to us about Wimbledon Medical Practice on 6 July 2023. We have not found evidence that we need to carry out an inspection or reassess our rating at this stage.

This could change at any time if we receive new information. We will continue to monitor data about this service.

If you have concerns about Wimbledon Medical Practice, you can give feedback on this service.

27 May 2021

During an inspection looking at part of the service

We carried out an announced review at Wimbledon Medical Practice on 27 May 2021. Overall, the practice is rated as Good.

Safe - Good

Effective - Good

Caring - Good

Responsive - Good

Well-led - Good

We inspected Wimbledon Medical Practice on 29 October 2019 and rated it as good overall. We rated the practice as good for all key questions apart from Effective, which we found to require improvement for the population groups People with long term conditions, Working age people and People experiencing poor mental health).

The full reports for previous inspections can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for the practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

Why we carried out this review

This review was a focused review of information, without undertaking a site visit, to follow up on:

  • effectiveness of clinical care, as measured by the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and against national targets for screening and immunisations
  • improvements in record-keeping on recruitment, prescribing of high risk medicines, and on safety alerts
  • staff safeguarding training
  • appraisals for salaried GPs
  • improvement in the identification of carers to enable this group of patients to access the care and support they need.

How we carried out the review

Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, taking into account the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our work differently.

We requested evidence from the practice and and reviewed it without spending time on site. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.

Our findings

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 rated this practice as Good overall. We have rated the practice as Good for all but one of the population groups. Only the population group Working age people remains as requires improvement.

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. The population group Working age people remains rated requires improvement because the evidence that practice has improved cervical screening uptake is not clear.

Whilst we found no breaches of regulations, the provider should:

  • continue to improve patient care.
  • introduce an oversight mechanism for high risk medicine prescribing, as a failsafe to identify any patients who have not had necessary checks and to provide assurance that policy is adhered to.
  • continue to improve the identification of carers to enable this group of patients to access the care and support they need.

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

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care

29 October 2019

During a routine inspection

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Wimbledon Medical Practice on 29 October 2019 as part of our inspection programme.

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 rated this practice as good overall, but requires improvement for effectiveness for people with long term conditions, for people experiencing poor mental health. We rated the other population groups as good.

We rated the practice as requires improvement for providing effective services because there were two population groups (people with long term conditions, people experiencing poor mental health) the whole key question is rated requires improvement.

  • Published performance data was significantly below local and national averages. The practice was registered with CQC in June 2019, after the end of the 2018/19 QOF year.  The results were carried over from the predecessor practice.
  • Practice staff told us about the action the practice was taking to improve and we saw unvalidated evidence that results had improved in the six months of the current QOF year, although results were generally not, so far, in line with average.


We found that:

  • The practice provided care in a way that kept patients safe and protected them from avoidable harm.
  • 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 led and managed promoted the delivery of high-quality, person-centre care. The practice was working to improve areas of below average or below target performance.

Whilst we found no breaches of regulations, the provider should:

  • Make and retain complete records on recruitment, prescribing of high risk medicines, and on safety alerts.
  • Upgrade staff training on safeguarding in line with updated guidance. Consider introducing appraisals for salaried GPs.
  • Improve patient care as measured by the Quality and Outcomes Framework and against national targets for cancer screening.
  • Improve the identification of carers to enable this group of patients to access the care and support they need.

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

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care