The Care Quality Commission has placed Barking Road Medical Centre in Newham, East Ham into special measures following a comprehensive inspection which has rated it as Inadequate.
The practice will now be able to access support from NHS England and the Royal College of General Practice to help it improve.
Under CQC’s programme of inspections, all GP practices are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
The full report from the inspection from December 2015, has been published on this website.
Michele Golden, Head of Inspection for General Practice said:
“Barking Road Medical Centre has provided general medical services to 2,900 registered patients and all people using services are entitled to expect high quality and consistent care from their GP practice.
“During our inspection we found enough areas of concern that our only recourse was to use our regulatory powers and suspend all actions at the surgery.”
“At present the surgery is closed, however, all regulatory action we take is subject to appeal”
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