Howell Surgery, Brenchley.Howell Surgery in Brenchley is a Doctors/GP specialising in the provision of services relating to diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, maternity and midwifery services, services for everyone, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 3rd December 2018 Contact Details:
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6th November 2018 - During a routine inspection
![]() We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Howell Surgery on 6 November 2018 as part of our inspection programme. Our inspection team was led by a CQC inspector and included a GP specialist advisor.
At the last inspection in August 2015 we rated the practice as good overall.
Our judgement of the quality of care at this service is based on a combination of what we found when we inspected, information from our ongoing monitoring of data about services and information from the provider, patients, the public and other organisations.
The practice is rated as good overall.
This means that:
There were areas where the provider should make improvements are:
Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.
Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP
11th August 2015 - During a routine inspection
![]() Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Howell Surgery on 11 August 2015. Overall the practice is rated as good.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows
We saw an area of outstanding practice:
However there were areas where the provider needs to make improvements namely:
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
16th May 2014 - During a routine inspection
![]() Howell surgery is a GP practice providing primary care services for around 4900 patients. There are three GPs who are in partnership. The main surgery is in the village of Brenchley, there is a branch surgery in the neighbouring village of Horsmonden. Howell surgery has its own medicine dispensary. Patients seen at the branch surgery may collect their medicines from Howell surgery following their consultation. During our inspection we visited Howell surgery only.
We only visited Howell Surgery in Brenchley for this inspection.
As part of the inspection we talked with the local Clinical Commissioning Group, the local Healthwatch, a member of the Patient Participation Group, patients who were at the Howell surgery on the day of the inspection, doctors and other clinical and non- clinical staff at the practice.
The patients we spoke with and those that left comment cards were very satisfied about the care and treatment they received. We did not receive any negative feedback with all patients saying they received very good or excellent care. Patients said that the appointment system worked very well and no one had any cause for complaint.
The practice provided caring, responsive, effective and well led services. Although the services provided by the practice were safe, we identified some concerns in relation to the storage of medicines.
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