South Ashford Medics, St Stephen Walk, Ashford.South Ashford Medics in St Stephen Walk, Ashford 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 24th April 2018 Contact Details:
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20th March 2018 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made
![]() This practice is rated as inadequate overall.
On 20 March 2018 we carried out a follow up inspection to check compliance with two enforcement notices issued in respect of the care and treatment of patients and good governance. The notices were issued following our initial inspection of South Ashford Medics on 5 December 2017. The practice was placed into special measures in February 2018, to be reinspected and re rated again within six months.
At this inspection we checked South Ashford Medics had complied with the notices issued in respect of safe care and treatment and had partially complied with the notice issued in respect of good governance. Therefore, further improvements were required.
At this inspection we found:
The area where the provider must make improvements are:
Services placed in special measures will be inspected again within six months. If insufficient improvements have been made such that there remains a rating of inadequate for any population group, key question or overall, we will take action in line with our enforcement procedures to begin the process of preventing the provider from operating the service. This will lead to cancelling their registration or to varying the terms of their registration within six months if they do not improve.
The service is kept under review and if needed could be escalated to urgent enforcement action. Where necessary, another inspection will be conducted within a further six months, and if there is not enough improvement we will move to close the service by adopting our proposal to remove this location or cancel the provider’s registration.
Special measures provides people who use the service with the reassurance that the care they get should improve.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
5th December 2017 - During a routine inspection
![]() Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
This practice is rated as inadequate overall.
The key questions are rated as:
Are services safe? – inadequate
Are services effective? – requires improvement
Are services caring? – requires improvement
Are services responsive? – inadequate
Are services well-led? - inadequate
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 – inadequate
People with long-term conditions – inadequate
Families, children and young people – inadequate
Working age people (including those recently retired and students – inadequate
People whose circumstances may make them vulnerable – inadequate
People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia) - inadequate
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at South Ashford Medics on 5 December 2017 as part of our inspection programme.
At this inspection we found:
The areas where the provider must make improvements are:
The areas where the provider should make improvements are:
I am placing this service in special measures. Services placed in special measures will be inspected again within six months. If insufficient improvements have been made such that there remains a rating of inadequate for any population group, key question or overall, we will take action in line with our enforcement procedures to begin the process of preventing the provider from operating the service. This will lead to cancelling their registration or to varying the terms of their registration within six months if they do not improve.
The service will be kept under review and if needed could be escalated to urgent enforcement action. Where necessary, another inspection will be conducted within a further six months, and if there is not enough improvement we will move to close the service by adopting our proposal to remove this location or cancel the provider’s registration.
Special measures will give people who use the service the reassurance that the care they get should improve.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
2nd November 2016 - During a routine inspection
![]() Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at South Ashford Medics on 20 August 2015. The practice was found to require improvement in the provision of safe services.
We undertook this desk based follow up inspection on 2 November 2016 to confirm that the practice had improved. We reviewed written and photographic information sent to us by the practice that told us how the areas where improvement was required identified during the comprehensive inspection had been addressed. This report should be read in conjunction with the full inspection report dated 20 August 2015. A copy of the last inspection report can be found on our website www.cqc.org.uk.
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
20th August 2015 - During a routine inspection
![]() Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice
We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at South Ashford Medics on 20 August 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 (QOF) 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:
There were areas where the provider needs to make improvements.
Importantly the provider should:
Professor Steve Field (CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP)
Chief Inspector of General Practice
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