Birmingham GP practice is rated as Inadequate by the Care Quality Commission

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found the quality of care provided by Dr Mohammad Salim to be Inadequate following an inspection carried out in March.

Dr Mohammad Salim’s practice provides a primary medical service to patients living in and around the Winson Green area of Birmingham. This area is one of the most deprived areas in the country and the practice has a registered list size of approximately 1,700 patients.

A full report of the inspection has been published today.

Under CQC’s new programme of inspections, all of England’s GP practices are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. The practice was rated Requires Improvement regarding whether services were caring and responsive, and Inadequate regarding whether services were safe, effective and well-led. This resulted in an overall rating of Inadequate.

The report on Dr Mohammad Salim highlights a number of areas where improvements are needed, these include:

• Effective and robust systems must be in place for assessing and monitoring the quality of services provided through effective governance and patient feedback.
• Robust systems must be implemented to respond to any identified risks from pre-employment checks.
• Robust systems must be in place to follow up patients on repeat prescriptions, particularly those on high risk medicines.
• Care should be appropriately planned involving patients who may require additional support to ensure their physical and emotional needs are met. This includes those with complex needs, in vulnerable circumstances, carers and those who have suffered recent bereavement.
• Effective systems must be in place to protect patients against the risks of inappropriate or unsafe care or treatment by identifying, assessing and managing risks.

CQC has been working closely with NHS England and t NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group to support the practice whilst it addresses the issues identified by the inspection.

Janet Williamson, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice and Dentistry in CQC’s Central region said:

“It is important that the people who are registered with Dr Mohammad Salim can rely on getting the high quality care which everyone is entitled to receive from their GP.

“We know that the practice has acknowledged the areas where action must be taken and the service has been making efforts to improve. We will return to check its progress. If in the coming months we don’t see sufficient improvement we may have to consider a package of further measures to ensure that this practice delivers the care and treatment to a standard that we all expect."

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