15 August 2017
During an inspection looking at part of the service
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Harewood Medical Practice on 16 May 2017. The overall rating for the practice was good with the well led domain rated as requires improvement. The full comprehensive report on the May 2017 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Harewood Medical Practice on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
This inspection was a desk-based review carried out on 15 August 2017 to confirm that the practice had carried out their plan to meet the legal requirements in relation to the breaches in regulations that we identified in our previous inspection on 16 May 2017. This report covers our findings in relation to those requirements and also additional improvements made since our last inspection.
Overall the practice is now rated as good.
Our key findings were as follows:
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The practice had taken steps to monitor and oversee that staff received appropriate training and updates as was necessary to enable them to carry out the duties they were employed to perform. They provided evidence of this.
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Annual staff appraisals had been implemented. Staff appraisals for all non-clinical staff and practice nurses had been completed and we saw evidence of this. Appraisals for Advanced Nurse Practitioners and salaried GPs were in the process of being arranged.
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Policies and procedures had been updated and reviewed where necessary. This included the Medication Review Protocol and the Staff Handbook. The practice had not recruited any new staff members since the inspection in May but were clear about the required recruitment checks for new staff.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice