Edenbridge Medical Practice, Station Road, Edenbridge.Edenbridge Medical Practice in Station Road, Edenbridge 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 May 2018 Contact Details:
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28th March 2018 - During a routine inspection
![]() This practice is rated as Good overall. (Previous inspection 22 September 2015 – Good)
The key questions are rated as:
Are services safe? – Good
Are services effective? – Good
Are services caring? – Good
Are services responsive? – Good
Are services well-led? - Good
As part of our inspection process, we also look at the quality of care for specific population groups. The population groups are rated as:
Older People – Good
People with long-term conditions – Good
Families, children and young people – Good
Working age people (including those recently retired and students – Good
People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable – Good
People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) - Good
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Edenbridge Medical Practice on 28 March 2018, under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide a rating for the service under the Care Act 2014.
At this inspection we found:
The areas where the provider should make improvements are:
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
22nd September 2015 - During a routine inspection
![]() Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Edenbridge Medical Practice on 22 September 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Please note that when referring to information throughout this report, for example any reference to the Quality and Outcomes Framework data, this relates to the most recent information available to the CQC at that time.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
However there were areas where the provider should make improvements.
Importantly the provider should:
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
21st October 2014 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made
![]() Edenbridge Medical Practice is a GP practice providing care for 12,100 patients.
There are four partners in the practice and a further six salaried GPs. The GPs are supported by a practice manager, a nursing team of three registered nurses and two health care assistants, and administrative staff consisting of receptionists, clerks and secretaries . Edenbridge Medical Practice is a dispensing practice and this is staffed by trained dispensing staff.
As part of the inspection we talked with the local clinical commissioning croup, the local healthwatch, two representatives of the patient participation group, patients who were at the practice on the day of the inspection, GPs, other clinical and non-clinical staff at the practice.
We had some concerns about the safety of medicine management at the practice. This was in relation to how emergency medicines and some medicines carried in the GPs bags were managed and the potential risks related to expired medicines.
All of the patients we spoke with were very positive about the care and treatment they received and they were complimentary about the staff at the practice. We received positive comments from patients who had completed comment cards prior to our inspection visit. All of which stated that they were happy with the support, care and treatment provided by all staff. Patients told us they experienced difficulties in booking appointments. This was also highlighted in the patient survey in 2013. The practice management team had recognised this as an issue and had researched how this element of the practice could be improved.
Overall, we found that the practice was well-led and provided caring, effective, and responsive services to a wide range of patient population groups, however, we had some concerns about medicines management which affected all population groups.
22nd May 2014 - During a routine inspection
![]() Edenbridge Medical Practice is a GP practice providing care for 12,100 patients.
There are four partners in the practice and a further six salaried GPs. The GPs are supported by a practice manager, a nursing team of three registered nurses and two health care assistants, and administrative staff consisting of receptionists, clerks and secretaries . Edenbridge Medical Practice is a dispensing practice and this is staffed by trained dispensing staff.
As part of the inspection we talked with the local clinical commissioning croup, the local healthwatch, two representatives of the patient participation group, patients who were at the practice on the day of the inspection, GPs, other clinical and non-clinical staff at the practice.
We had some concerns about the safety of medicine management at the practice. This was in relation to how emergency medicines and some medicines carried in the GPs bags were managed and the potential risks related to expired medicines.
All of the patients we spoke with were very positive about the care and treatment they received and they were complimentary about the staff at the practice. We received positive comments from patients who had completed comment cards prior to our inspection visit. All of which stated that they were happy with the support, care and treatment provided by all staff. Patients told us they experienced difficulties in booking appointments. This was also highlighted in the patient survey in 2013. The practice management team had recognised this as an issue and had researched how this element of the practice could be improved.
Overall, we found that the practice was well-led and provided caring, effective, and responsive services to a wide range of patient population groups, however, we had some concerns about medicines management which affected all population groups.
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