Northenden Group Practice - Care Quality Commission

Background to this inspection

Updated 30 June 2016

Northenden Group Practice is situated on a busy main road in the Northenden area of Manchester. It is located in a health centre where other services, such as district nurses and health visitors, are also provided. It is a single storey building that is fully accessible for people with disabilities.

There is a car park. There is also a branch surgery, Gatley Green Surgery. Gatley Green surgery has three floors and there is a passenger lift. Car parking is available on the road outside. Patients are able to access whichever surgery is most convenient for them.

The practice contracts with NHS England to provide General Medical Services (GMS) to the patients registered with the practice. At the time of our inspection 10,841 patients were registered.

There were five GP partners and four salaried GPs, with a whole time equivalent of seven GPs. Five were female and four were male.

The surgery at Northenden is open from Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 6pm. On a Monday evening they operated extended hours opening until 7.45pm. There are no fixed appointment times and GPs made appointments for their patients flexibly within the opening hours. The surgery at Gatley Green is open from 8.30am until 6pm Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and it closed at 2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays.

The practice has opted out of providing out-of-hours services to their patients. This service is provided by a registered out of hours service.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 30 June 2016

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

This is a focused desk top review of evidence supplied by The Northenden Group Practice, for two areas, within the key question safe.

We found the practice to be good in providing safe services. Overall, the practice is rated as good.

The practice was inspected on 2 July 2015. The inspection was a comprehensive inspection under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. At that inspection, the practice was rated ‘good’ overall. However, within the key question safe, safe care and treatment and fit and proper

persons employed were identified as ‘requires improvement’, as the practice was not meeting the legislation at that time; Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment and Regulation 19 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Fit and proper persons employed.

The practice supplied an action plan and a range of documents which demonstrated they are now meeting the requirements of Regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment and Regulation 19 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Fit and proper persons employed.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)

Chief Inspector of General Practice