CQC rate the New Inn Surgery, Guildford as inadequate

CQC Chief Inspector of General Practice has rated the New Inn Surgery, Guildford as inadequate.

A specialist team of inspectors rated the service provided by New Inn Surgery, Guildford as being inadequate for safe, and well-led, requires improvement for effective and responsive whilst being good for being caring. This means that the practice has been given an overall rating of inadequate.

Under CQC’s new programme of GP practice inspections, led by Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice, all of England’s GP practices are being inspected and given a rating.

The practice was inspected in October 2014 by an inspection team which included two CQC inspectors, a practice manager and a GP specialist advisor. A full report of this inspection has been published on the CQC website today.

Inspectors found the practice did not have a robust system to manage and review any risks to vulnerable children, young people and adults. There were no training records in place which showed that all staff had received relevant role specific training on safeguarding.

CQC observed the practice did not have robust systems in place for reporting, recording and monitoring significant events, incidents and accidents. There were records of three significant events that had occurred during the last 18 months. Inspectors were able to review these but, there was no learning recorded from the events and there was no evidence to demonstrate how the practice had learned from these and that the findings were shared with relevant staff.

The Care Quality Commission has identified 9 specific areas for improvement the practice must take including:

• Improve staff awareness of protecting patients from abuse and who to report concerns to.
• Improve the management of medicines in relation to the safe storage and administration of vaccinations and immunisations.
• Ensure recruitment arrangements include all necessary employment checks for all staff.
• Develop a system to ensure all staff receive the appropriate mandatory and other training appropriate to their role. For example: Mental Capacity Act 2005, chaperoning and infection control.

Ruth Rankine, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice said:

“The way in which the New Inn Surgery operated failed to meet the fundamental aspects of good care that people have the right to expect - high quality, compassionate and safe. There were some positive aspects within the surgery and overall we rated the service as good for caring, such kindness is a vital aspect of good quality care. The failure to have systems in place to monitor and review the quality of the service exposed people to unacceptable risks. Overall we rated the service as inadequate as we found that the provider was failing people in a number of key areas and exposed people to unacceptable risks.

“It is vital that New Inn Surgery takes action to address the concerns we identified at this inspection. The provider has a responsibility to ensure that people are safe and protected from the risk of harm. All people using the surgery services have a right to receive care which is of a high quality, compassionate and safe

"The service will be kept under review and if needed could be escalated to urgent enforcement action. Where necessary another inspection will be conducted within a further six months"

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