Meden Medical Services, Egmanton Road, Meden Vale, Mansfield.
Meden Medical Services in Egmanton Road, Meden Vale, Mansfield 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 28th September 2017
Meden Medical Services is managed by Dr Simon Allen.
Contact Details:
Address:
Meden Medical Services Medical Centre Egmanton Road Meden Vale Mansfield NG20 9QN United Kingdom
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection of Meden Medical Services on 16 December 2015. The practice was rated as requires improvement overall. The fully comprehensive report on the December 2015 inspection can be found by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Meden Medical Services on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.
We carried out a further announced comprehensive inspection at Meden Medical Services on 27 June 2017. Overall the practice is rated as requires improvement.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
There was a system in place for reporting and recording significant events. However, there had been no significant events reported or reviewed since December 2016 for both the main and branch surgeries.
Data showed patient outcomes were low compared to the national average.
Data from the GP patient survey showed that patients rated the practice lower than average for several aspects of care. However, patients we spoke with said they were treated with compassion and respect and were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment. Feedback received from 18 CQC patient comment cards were all positive about their experience of the practice.
Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand.
The practice and branch surgery had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
The practice provided a range of services to meet the needs of its population. For example, the practice offered a minor injuries service.
There was a leadership structure in place and staff told us they felt supported by management.
The practice sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on. The practice had an active patient participation group (PPG) in place who met on a regular basic and carried out patient surveys in the patient waiting area.
The areas where the provider must make improvements are:
Address the issues highlighted in the national GP survey in order to improve patient satisfaction, including appointment access and consultations with GPs and nurses.
Ensure there is an effective system in place to manage and monitor processes to improve outcomes for patients.
Review process in place to ensure blank prescription forms are tracked throughout the practice.
In addition the provider should:
Continue to review the process for significant events on a regular basis to ensure any themes or trends are identified and learning has been embedded.
Provide practice information to patients in particular in relation to the practice zero tolerance policy for patients.
Ensure that safety updates from the MHRA received by the practice, are disseminated to relevant members of staff ensuring adequate records are held to evidence that relevant staff have received these alerts and actions taken as necessary.
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Meden Medical Services on 16 December 2015. Overall the practice is rated as requires improvement.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
Staff understood and fulfilled their responsibilities to raise concerns, and to report incidents and near misses. However, reviews and investigations were not always sufficiently detailed.
Some risks to patients were assessed and well managed; however, the practice had failed to assess all risks. For example, they had not assessed the risk of not having medicines to respond to specific clinical emergencies.
Data showed patient outcomes were low compared to the locality and nationally.
Data from the GP patient survey showed that patients rated that practice lower than average for several aspects of care. However, the two patients we spoke with said they were treated with compassion and respect and were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand.
Patient survey data indicated that patients found it difficult to make an appointment with a named GP.
The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
There was a leadership structure in place and staff told us they felt supported by management. However, the practice did not hold regular meetings with staff.
The practice sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
The areas where the provider must make improvements are:
Improve systems and processes to ensure care and treatment is provided in a safe way including the safe management of medicines; ensuring that arrangements are in place to respond to clinical or medical emergencies and implementing cleaning schedules for all equipment.
Ensure robust systems are in place to assess and improve the quality of services being provided to patients including the quality of clinical care and access to services.
The areas where the provider should make improvement are:
Review significant events on a regular basis to ensure any themes or trends are identified and learning has been embedded.
Ensure systems are in place to securely retain paperwork in relation to staff appraisal
Instigate meetings within the practice to involve all staffing groups
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