England’s Chief Inspector of General Practice has rated a Blackpool GP surgery as Inadequate and placed the practice into special measures following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
A specialist team of inspectors rated Dr G Celikkol's Practice also known as Grange Park Health Centre, Dinmore Avenue, Blackpool as Inadequate for providing services that were safe, well led, effective, and responsive and Requires Improvement for being caring.
Under CQC’s new programme of inspections, all of England’s GP practices are being inspected and given a rating. Overall, Grange Park Health Centre has been rated as Inadequate and placed in special measures.
The practice inspection in April 2016 was led by a CQC inspector and included a GP specialist adviser and a practice nurse specialist adviser.
We were concerned about the inadequate systems and processes in place to keep patients safe including recruitment and training of staff and monitoring medical equipment and clinical supplies (some of which were out of date).
The practice did not maintain some patient information securely. Patient outcomes were hard to identify as little or no reference was made to audits or quality improvement and there was no evidence that the practice was comparing its performance to others, either locally or nationally.There was little evidence to suggest that the practice was engaging with patients to seek their views of the service. They did not have a patient representative group.
A full report of this inspection has been published.
Sue McMillan, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice said:
“It is important that the people who are registered at Grange Park Health Centre can rely on getting the high quality care which everyone is entitled to receive from their GP.
“Although some people told us staff were caring and treated patients with dignity and respect, the service had failed to ensure staff were appropriately trained and safe to work with patients. Action must also be taken to address the wider concerns we identified about outcomes so that patients receive safe, high-quality primary care.
“I do not believe that the practice is likely to resolve its challenges without external support. This is why we are placing the practice into special measures.
“After a period of six months we will inspect again to check whether sufficient improvements have been made. If we find that the service provided by this practice remains inadequate, we will consider taking steps to cancel its registration with CQC.”
Patients registered with the practices being placed into special measures should be aware that the package of support being offered by NHS England and the Royal College of GPs will ensure that there are no immediate risks to patient safety at these GP practices whilst improvements are being made.
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