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Cornerstone Family Practice

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Cornerstone Centre, Graham Street, Beswick, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3AA (0161) 223 0637

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Cornerstone Family Practice

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Background to this inspection

Updated 6 March 2023

Cornerstone Family Practice is located in Beswick in Manchester at:

Cornerstone Centre,

Graham Street

Beswick

Manchester

M11 3AA

The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services and treatment of disease, disorder or injury and surgical procedures.

The practice is situated within the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) and delivers General Medical Services (GMS) to a patient population of 7,042. This is part of a contract held with NHS England.

The practice is part of a wider network of GP practices called the Clayton, Beswick and Openshaw primary care network (PCN).

Information published by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the lowest decile (1 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others.

According to the latest available data, the ethnic make-up of the practice area is 11% Black, 8.1% Asian and 3.8% Mixed.

The age distribution of the practice population closely mirrors the local and national averages. However, there are more male patients registered at the practice between the ages 5–9 and 30-39 compared with local and national averages and more female patients between the ages of 30-34 compared with local and national averages.

There is a team of two GP partners and one salaried GP. The practice has one part time nurse who provides nurse led clinics for long-term conditions and a part time advanced nurse practitioner (ANP). The clinical staff are supported at the practice by a team of reception and administration staff. The practice manager and reception manager provide managerial oversight. There are several allied health professionals at the practice including a clinical pharmacist and a physician associate who are employed by the PCN and facilitate a wider range of services for the practice population.

The practice is open between 8am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. The practice offers a range of appointment types including book on the day, telephone consultations and advance appointments.

Extended access is provided locally by Clayton, Beswick and Openshaw PCN, where late evening and weekend appointments are available. Out of hours services are accessed by contacting NHS 111.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 6 March 2023

We carried out an announced review at Cornerstone Family Practice on 13 April 2021. Overall, the practice is rated as Good, with the rating for the effective key question now updated to good. Patient population groups have also been updated to Good.

Following our previous inspection on 08 May 2019 the practice was rated Good overall and for all key questions apart from effective, which was requires improvement.

Effective was rated as requires improvement due to the practice’s performance data being below local and national averages. We issued the provider with a requirement notice for breach of Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) and asked them for an action plan detailing what they would do to improve.

The full reports for previous inspections can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-545393907/reports on our website at www.cqc.org.uk

Why we carried out this review

This review was a follow-up of information without undertaking a site visit inspection to follow up on:

  • Original breach identified in Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment was identified.
  • The regulation was not being met due to multiple areas below average in the quality outcome framework (QOF).

Our findings

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

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

We have rated this practice as Good in one domain Effective and the Good overall.

We found that:

  • The overall QOF ratings from 2017/18 had vastly increased by 143 points, seeing improvements in the long-term conditions.
  • The overall QOF score for 2019/20 was 96%.
  • The practice had employed a Data manager to help review and improve in this area.

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

  • Continue further work on improving performance data, in particular cervical screening.

Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care