Updated 8 May 2024
The Limes Medical Centre is a GP practice and provides a range of primary medical services. The GP practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to provide the following regulated activities, diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, midwifery and maternity services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. We inspected and rated this service under our previous methodology on 17 March 2022. The practice was rated requires improvement overall, and for key questions safe, and well-led, effective, caring and responsive was rated as requires improvement. We carried out an announced assessment of 28 quality statements, under the safe, effective, responsive, and well-led key questions between 4 June and 19 June 2024. The assessment was carried out remotely and included an on-site assessment on 6 June 2024. A further unannounced assessment was carried out on 19 June 2024. The service has been rated as inadequate for key questions of safe and well-led and inadequate overall. Effective and responsive was rated as requires improvement. As a result of our assessment findings, this service will be placed in special measures. Services placed in special measures will be inspected again within six months. If insufficient improvements have been made such that there remains a rating of inadequate for any key question or overall, we will take action in line with our enforcement procedures to begin the process of preventing the provider from operating the service. This will lead to cancelling their registration or to varying the terms of their registration within six months if they do not improve.