Blyth's Meadow Surgery, Braintree.

Blyth's Meadow Surgery in Braintree is a Doctors/GP specialising in the provision of services relating to diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, services for everyone, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 10th March 2016

Blyth's Meadow Surgery is managed by Blyth's Meadow Surgery.

Contact Details:

Address: Blyth's Meadow Surgery Trinovantian Way Braintree CM7 3JN United Kingdom Telephone: 01376552508 Website: http://www.blythsmeadowsurgery.nhs.uk

Ratings:

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Further Details:

Important Dates:

Last Inspection		2016-03-10
Last Published		2016-03-10

Local Authority:

Essex

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Inspection Reports:

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8th December 2015 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out a comprehensive inspection at Blyth’s Meadow Surgery on 13 February 2015. The practice was rated as good overall and in particular rated as good for effective, caring, responsive, well-led services and requires improvement for safe service.

During the inspection on 13 February 2015 we found that;

• The practice did not have safe medicine management procedures.

• They did not have robust controlled drugs stock control.

• No controlled drugs disposal arrangements.

• They did not follow the practice policy for the safe disposal of medication.

The practice were issued with a requirement notice for improvement.

There were also areas we told the practice they should address to improve safety.

We found:

• Risks to patients were not assessed appropriately or recorded.

• Complaints were not being reviewed to detect recurrent themes or trends.

• Meeting minutes were not recorded or made available to staff members.

Following the previous inspection the practice sent us information about the actions they would take and when they would be implemented.

We then carried out a focused inspection at Blyth’s Meadow Surgery 08 December 2015 to follow-up on our previous inspection and to ensure that the practice had made the required improvements.

Our key findings during this focused follow-up inspection were as follows:

• The practice had reviewed medicine management procedures and implemented changes that were effective.
• Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
• Complaints were reviewed to detect themes and trends.
• Minutes of meetings were recorded and made available to staff.

We were therefore satisfied that the provider had made all of the improvements identified as a result of the inspection on 13 February 2015.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice

1st January 1970 - During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out a comprehensive inspection at Blyth’s Meadow Surgery on 13 February 2015. The practice was rated as good overall and in particular rated as good for effective, caring, responsive, well-led services and requires improvement for safe service.

During the inspection on 13 February 2015 we found that;

• The practice did not have safe medicine management procedures.

• They did not have robust controlled drugs stock control.

• No controlled drugs disposal arrangements.

• They did not follow the practice policy for the safe disposal of medication.

The practice were issued with a requirement notice for improvement.

There were also areas we told the practice they should address to improve safety.

We found:

• Risks to patients were not assessed appropriately or recorded.

• Complaints were not being reviewed to detect recurrent themes or trends.

• Meeting minutes were not recorded or made available to staff members.

Following the previous inspection the practice sent us information about the actions they would take and when they would be implemented.

We then carried out a focused inspection at Blyth’s Meadow Surgery 08 December 2015 to follow-up on our previous inspection and to ensure that the practice had made the required improvements.

Our key findings during this focused follow-up inspection were as follows:

• The practice had reviewed medicine management procedures and implemented changes that were effective.
• Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
• Complaints were reviewed to detect themes and trends.
• Minutes of meetings were recorded and made available to staff.

We were therefore satisfied that the provider had made all of the improvements identified as a result of the inspection on 13 February 2015.

Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP) 

Chief Inspector of General Practice