This month we start inspecting the second wave of GP practices using our new approach to inspection.
The clinical commissioning groups (CCG) areas that have been targeted for inspection are:
- Greater Preston
- Oxford
- Lewisham
- Leicester
- South Devon & Torbay
- Wakefield
- Sandwell & West Birmingham
- Gloucester
- Newham
- Sunderland
- Cambridge & Peterborough
- Hillingdon
The new inspection teams will be led by expert inspectors with clinical input from GPs and practice nurses. The teams will include an inspector, a GP, a nurse or a practice manager and a trainee GP. They may also include an Expert by Experience (someone who uses a GP practice or has a particular experience of care).
The inspectors will look at how well the service responds to patients’ needs and consider the quality of communication between GPs and out-of-hours care and other local services, including care homes and emergency services.
Share your experience
If you wish to share your views with the inspection team, you can do so in a number of ways...
- Share your experience online
- By email: enquiries@cqc.org.uk
- By letter: CQC, Citygate, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PA
- By phone: 03000 61 61 61
Every GP surgery in England will have been inspected and rated by April 2016.
Inspecting GP practices and out-of-hours services
Our inspection teams will be led by expert inspectors with clinical input from GPs and practice nurses.
The teams will include an inspector, a GP, a nurse or a practice manager and a trainee GP, and may also include an Expert by Experience (someone who uses a GP practice or has a particular experience of care).
Find out more about our new approach to inspecting GP practices and out-of-hours services in the document below.
A fresh start for the regulation and inspection of GP practices and GP out-of-hours services