The Hogarth Health Club

Updated 6 September 2022

Dr Bela Clinic trading as Dermatic Limited at The Hogarth Health Club provides private dermatology, skin cancer screening and facial aesthetic services. It is located at 1A Airedale Avenue London W4 2NW. The clinic premises are not suitable for access by wheelchair users and some less able patients.

At the time of the inspection the provider did not offer a chaperone and patients were advised of this at registration. The service sees approximately 20 patients a week. The service is made up of one lead doctor who is registered with the General Medical Council GMC, the doctor is not on the GP register or the specialist register. The service is open Monday, Tuesday 9am-5pm, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9am-1pm.

The service offers a range of non-surgical cosmetic interventions, for example dermal fillers and lip fillers, Botox injections which are not within CQC scope of registration. Therefore, we did not inspect or report on these services.

Other services provided include private dermatology consultations by the lead doctor and total body screening for skin cancer, also prescribing of medicines and referrals to other healthcare specialists as required. They also provide minor surgical procedures using local anaesthetic for the removal of warts, moles, cysts, skin tags. Patients can register for either a general dermatological consultation and treatment, or melanoma and skin cancer screening or facial aesthetic treatments. The provider sees both children and adults.

The service website address is https://drbela.clinic.

Updated 6 September 2022

We carried out an announced desk-based review of The Hogarth Health Club on 09 August 2022. Overall, the practice is rated as Good.

Safe - Good

Effective - Not inspected

Caring - Not inspected

Responsive - Not inspected

Well-led - Not inspected

Following our previous inspection in November 2021, the practice was rated Good overall and for all key questions except for providing safe services.

The full report for previous inspections can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for The Hogarth Health Club on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

Why we carried out this review

This desk-based review was conducted without undertaking a site visit to confirm that the service had carried out its plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breach of regulations that we identified at our previous inspection in November 2021. The key question we inspected was: Safe

How we carried out the review

Throughout the pandemic CQC has continued to regulate and respond to risk. However, taking into account the circumstances arising as a result of the pandemic, and in order to reduce risk, we have conducted our inspections differently.

This review was carried out in a way which did not require a site visit. This was with consent from the provider and in line with all data protection and information governance requirements.

This included:

• Requesting evidence from the provider
• A remote review of the information provided

Our findings

We based our judgement of the quality of care at this service on a combination of:

• what we found when we inspected
• information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and
• information from the provider, patients, the public and other organisations.

The practice remains rated as Good overall.

We found that:

• The practice provided care in a way that kept patients safe and protected them from avoidable harm.
• There was now an effective system in place for chaperoning.
• Communication with NHS GPs was occurring.
• A system for reviewing if an adult accompanying a child had parental responsibility had been reviewed.
• The service was now recording fridge temperature and a second thermometer had been purchased.
• The service had purchased a pulse oximeter.

Whilst we found no breaches of regulations, the provider should:

• Continue to monitor and review quality improvement for patients.

Dr Sean O’Kelly BSc MB ChB MSc DCH FRCA

Chief Inspector of Hospitals and Interim Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services