Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of the practice on 10 February 2016. Breaches of the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 were found. The practice was rated as Requires Improvement for Safety.
After the comprehensive inspection, the practice wrote to us to say what they would do to address the breaches of regulation.
We undertook a desk-based focussed inspection on 16 November 2016 to check that they had followed their plan and to confirm that they now met the legal requirements. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also where other improvements have been made following the initial inspection. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Burnt Ash Surgery on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
Overall the practice is rated as Good. Specifically, following the focussed inspection we found the practice to now be good for providing safe services.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
- Risks to patients were assessed and well-managed, including those related to recruitment, staff training and support.
Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
Chief Inspector of General Practice