Nettleham Medical Practice in Nettleham, Lincoln 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 2016
Nettleham Medical Practice is managed by Nettleham Medical Practice.
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Nettleham Medical Practice 14 Lodge Lane Nettleham Lincoln LN2 2RS United Kingdom
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Nettleham Medical Practice on 28 April 2016. Overall the practice is rated as outstanding.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
There was an open and transparent approach to safety and an effective system in place for reporting and recording significant events. There was a coordinator in place for significant events who produced a regular significant event newsletter to ensure all staff were aware of recent incidents and ensured lessons learned were shared with all practice staff.
Risks to patients were assessed and well managed. The practice had an effective risk register in place and had carried out numerous risk assessments which were reviewed on a regular basis.
Staff assessed patients’ needs and delivered care in line with current evidence based guidance. Staff had been trained to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective care and treatment.
Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
The practice provided a memory clinic held in-house on a monthly basis for patients.This service was delivered by a community mental health nurse and a consultant in old age psychiatry.
Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand. Improvements were made to the quality of care as a result of complaints and concerns.
Patients said they found it easy to make an appointment with a named GP and there was continuity of care, with urgent appointments available the same day.
The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
The practice achieved the highest dementia diagnosis rate within Lincolnshire West CCG of 94 patients diagnosed during 2014-15, with an increase in diagnosis to 122 patients during 2015-16.
If families had suffered bereavement, their usual GP sent a letter to the bereaved family member/s or carer of the deceased patient and offered an appointment at a convenient time and access to bereavement services. The practice had received numerous letters and cards of thanks for the support offered by staff at times of bereavement.
The practice provided health pods in the waiting area for patients which enabled them to check their own blood pressure reading and weight measurements.This system was available in numerous different languages and automatically updated the patient care record with this information. Patients could use this system at a convenient time to the patient.
There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
The provider was aware of and complied with the requirements of the duty of candour.
During our inspection we saw four areas of outstanding practice:
The practice worked in partnership with the patient participation group. A voluntary driver scheme was formed in 2009 in response to difficulties patients experienced in attending consultations at either practice.There were 13 dedicated voluntary drivers who had carried out 11,146 patient journeys for approximately 360 patients since the scheme began.
The practice provided a memory clinic held in-house on a monthly basis for patients.This service was delivered by a community mental health nurse and a consultant in old age psychiatry.The practice also had an effective alert system system in place within the patient care record to ensure clinicians carried out effective dementia screening for patients who required this. The practice had achieved the highest dementia diagnosis rate within Lincolnshire West CCG of 94 patients diagnosed during 2014-15, with an increase in diagnosis to 122 patients during 2015-16. This provided an early diagnosis for patients and enabled GPs to provide the most effective care, treatment and support to help them to manage their condition.
The practice carried out an on-going palliative care audit. Three full cycle audits had been carried out at the time of our inspection. The aim of this audit was to identify all patients who required palliative care and to review the levels of care delivered to these patients and those at end of life, and assessed whether appropriate end of life care planning had been provided. The practice aimed to ensure the best possible care was for provided to these patients at all times. As part of this audit process, the practice produced its own standards in line with the Department of Health 2008 end of life care strategy to ensure clinicians continually monitored and delivered high quality care for patients. The practice carried out a full review of all of these patients during multi-disciplinary meetings to ascertain whether these standards had been achieved and carried out a significant event analysis to identify where improvements could have been made in the delivery of care.
The practice provided an in-house leg ulcer clinic which provided holistic care for patients of the practice who suffered leg problems.This service had been introduced approximately 12 years ago. The practice had a higher than average elderly population who had increased risk of developing chronic oedema and other leg problems and the nearest specialist lymphedema clinic was approximately 40 miles away from the practice.14.1% of the practice patient population were over the age of 75 compared to the CCG average of 8.4% and national average of 7.5%.The aim of this service was to provide early intervention and long term management of patients, reducing costs to the NHS, reducing admissions to hospital and enhancing quality of life for patients. 2.71% of the practice patient population were being seen in this clinic at the time of our inspection. 88% of patients seen in this clinic had successfully healed venous leg ulcers. We saw numerous examples of case studies of patients whose treatment had been successful.
Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Nettleham Medical Practice on 28 April 2016. Overall the practice is rated as outstanding.
Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:
There was an open and transparent approach to safety and an effective system in place for reporting and recording significant events. There was a coordinator in place for significant events who produced a regular significant event newsletter to ensure all staff were aware of recent incidents and ensured lessons learned were shared with all practice staff.
Risks to patients were assessed and well managed. The practice had an effective risk register in place and had carried out numerous risk assessments which were reviewed on a regular basis.
Staff assessed patients’ needs and delivered care in line with current evidence based guidance. Staff had been trained to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective care and treatment.
Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
The practice provided a memory clinic held in-house on a monthly basis for patients.This service was delivered by a community mental health nurse and a consultant in old age psychiatry.
Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand. Improvements were made to the quality of care as a result of complaints and concerns.
Patients said they found it easy to make an appointment with a named GP and there was continuity of care, with urgent appointments available the same day.
The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
The practice achieved the highest dementia diagnosis rate within Lincolnshire West CCG of 94 patients diagnosed during 2014-15, with an increase in diagnosis to 122 patients during 2015-16.
If families had suffered bereavement, their usual GP sent a letter to the bereaved family member/s or carer of the deceased patient and offered an appointment at a convenient time and access to bereavement services. The practice had received numerous letters and cards of thanks for the support offered by staff at times of bereavement.
The practice provided health pods in the waiting area for patients which enabled them to check their own blood pressure reading and weight measurements.This system was available in numerous different languages and automatically updated the patient care record with this information. Patients could use this system at a convenient time to the patient.
There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
The provider was aware of and complied with the requirements of the duty of candour.
During our inspection we saw four areas of outstanding practice:
The practice worked in partnership with the patient participation group. A voluntary driver scheme was formed in 2009 in response to difficulties patients experienced in attending consultations at either practice.There were 13 dedicated voluntary drivers who had carried out 11,146 patient journeys for approximately 360 patients since the scheme began.
The practice provided a memory clinic held in-house on a monthly basis for patients.This service was delivered by a community mental health nurse and a consultant in old age psychiatry.The practice also had an effective alert system system in place within the patient care record to ensure clinicians carried out effective dementia screening for patients who required this. The practice had achieved the highest dementia diagnosis rate within Lincolnshire West CCG of 94 patients diagnosed during 2014-15, with an increase in diagnosis to 122 patients during 2015-16. This provided an early diagnosis for patients and enabled GPs to provide the most effective care, treatment and support to help them to manage their condition.
The practice carried out an on-going palliative care audit. Three full cycle audits had been carried out at the time of our inspection. The aim of this audit was to identify all patients who required palliative care and to review the levels of care delivered to these patients and those at end of life, and assessed whether appropriate end of life care planning had been provided. The practice aimed to ensure the best possible care was for provided to these patients at all times. As part of this audit process, the practice produced its own standards in line with the Department of Health 2008 end of life care strategy to ensure clinicians continually monitored and delivered high quality care for patients. The practice carried out a full review of all of these patients during multi-disciplinary meetings to ascertain whether these standards had been achieved and carried out a significant event analysis to identify where improvements could have been made in the delivery of care.
The practice provided an in-house leg ulcer clinic which provided holistic care for patients of the practice who suffered leg problems.This service had been introduced approximately 12 years ago. The practice had a higher than average elderly population who had increased risk of developing chronic oedema and other leg problems and the nearest specialist lymphedema clinic was approximately 40 miles away from the practice.14.1% of the practice patient population were over the age of 75 compared to the CCG average of 8.4% and national average of 7.5%.The aim of this service was to provide early intervention and long term management of patients, reducing costs to the NHS, reducing admissions to hospital and enhancing quality of life for patients. 2.71% of the practice patient population were being seen in this clinic at the time of our inspection. 88% of patients seen in this clinic had successfully healed venous leg ulcers. We saw numerous examples of case studies of patients whose treatment had been successful.
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