Ashton GP Service - Care Quality Commission

Background to this inspection

Updated 25 May 2017

Ashton GP Service provides primary medical services in Ashton Under Lyne, from Monday to Friday 8:00am – 8:00pm and Saturday 8:00am – 12:00pm for registered patients and operate a seven days a week, walk in service 8:00am to 8:00pm for patients including non registered patients. Appointments with a GP for registeredpatients were available between 08:00am - 6:00pm Monday to Friday and 8:00am – 12:00pm Saturdays.

Ashton GP Service is situated within the geographical area of Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The practice is part of Go to Doc (GTD) a not for profit organisation. The practice has an Alternative Primary Medical Services (APMS) contract. The APMS contract is the contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering primary care services to local communities.

Ashton GP Service is responsible for providing care to 3000 registered patients alongside a walk in centre for non-registered patients visiting, living in, or working in the area. On average the practice see 800 walk in patients a week.

When the practice is closed patients are directed to the out of hours service by calling 111.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 25 May 2017

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

This is a focused inspection of Ashton GP Service for one area 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 previously inspected on 04 November 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, one area was identified as requiring improvement, as the practice was not meeting the legislation at that time:

Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment: 1.Care and treatment must be provided in a safe way for service users. 2.Without limiting paragraph (1), the things which a registered person must do to comply with that paragraph include— f. where equipment or medicines are supplied by the service provider, ensuring that there are sufficient quantities of these to ensure the safety of service users and to meet their needs; g. the proper and safe management of medicines.

The arrangements for storage, monitoring and administration of medicines were not robust.

We visited Ashton GP service enabling us to follow up on the one area of requires improvement. During the inspection on 6 February 2017 we were provided with evidence which demonstrated Ashton GP Service are now meeting the requirements of Regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)

Chief Inspector of General Practice