Dermasurge

Updated 13 December 2022

Dermasurge Limited is located at 121 Harley Street, London in the London Borough of Westminster.

The provider is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to deliver the regulated activities: treatment of disease, disorder or injury and diagnostic and screening procedures.

Services provided include medical dermatology; mole screening and removal of skin lesions and biopsies via minor surgical procedures.

Patients can be referred to other services for diagnostic imaging and specialist care.

The practice is open Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 6.30pm and does not offer out of hours care. The provider’s website can be accessed at www.dermasurge.co.uk

How we inspected this practice

During the inspection we reviewed a range of information submitted by the service, interviewed staff, observed practice and reviewed documents focused on the key question for ‘safe’.

Updated 13 December 2022

This service is rated as Good overall.

The key question is rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

We carried out an announced focused inspection at Dermasurge on 04 May 2022 as part of our inspection programme. The practice is an independent dermatology service located at 121 Harley Street, London,W1G 6AX.

Dr Hiba Alinjibar is the registered manager. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

Dermasurge is an independent provider of medical services and offers a full range of private dermatology services. This inspection was to follow-up concerns we had found at our previous inspection on 04 May 2022, regarding the key question for safe.

This service is registered with CQC under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in respect of some, but not all, of the services it provides. There are some exemptions from regulation by CQC which relate to particular types of regulated activities and services and these are set out in Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. Dermasurge Limited provides a range of non-surgical cosmetic interventions, for example, aesthetic treatments and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatment for vascular lesions and facial veins which are not within CQC scope of registration. Therefore, we did not inspect or report on these services.

At this inspection we reviewed the key question for ‘safe’.

Our key findings were:

• The practice provided care in a way that kept patients safe and protected them from avoidable harm.
• Patients received effective care and treatment that met their needs.
• The way the practice was led and managed promoted the delivery of high-quality, person-centre care.
• The practice was aware of current evidence-based guidance and they had the skills, knowledge and experience to carry out their roles.
• There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management.

We found the provider had made some improvements in providing safe services regarding:

• A safe effective system in place to monitor and manage patient safety alerts, including historical alerts that remained relevant.

• A safe effective system in place for verifying the identity of patients including children.

• A safe effective system in place to monitor and manage staff immunisations and certified immunity.

• Staff acting as chaperones were trained for the role, or supported by a policy.

• A safe effective system in place to monitor and manage the control of substances hazardous to health, in particular the storage of liquid nitrogen.

• Practice policies and business plan contained relevant and up to date information, including for safeguarding.

Dr Sean O’Kelly BSc MB ChB MSc DCH FRCA

Chief Inspector of Hospitals and Interim Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services