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Inspectors rap chief inspector’s practice

NewsThe chief inspector of GPs was facing questions today after his own practice failed a safety inspection.

Professor Steve Field’s Birmingham practice gained an overall rating of “good” from the Care Quality Commission – which employs him – but was ordered to improve on safety.

Inspectors found the practice had failed to review many patients receiving “high risk” drugs for 12 months. They studied 556 records and found 139 patients who had not been checked.

They stated: “The systems and processes to address these risks were not always implemented well enough to ensure patientsí safety.”

Announcing the latest round of some 110 inspection results, Professor Field said: “We still see evidence of too much poor care. Since we began inspecting GP practices in October 2014 we have found over 200 practices to be inadequate.

“While this is a minority, this still amounts to over half a million patients in England who were not receiving the basic standards of care that they should be able to expect from their GP practice.”

Questioned last night by the Daily Mail, Professor Field said the problems had “already been addressed.”

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3 Responses to “Inspectors rap chief inspector’s practice”
  1. Nicola Hayward Says:

    Well, ain’t karma a bitch?!!!

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  2. Robert Says:

    Oh dear! I was looking through some reports yesterday and was surprised to see the same old issues still being raised. No training for chaperones. No DBS checks for clinical staff. No significant events reporting etc. etc. How many years will pass before the messages get home about how well a GP Practice needs to be run to meet the grade? Even Professor Fields Practice. Is it the attitude that we are OK and it will not happen here. They won’t notice that. But of course they DO.

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  3. Alan Moore Says:

    Robert is right – the same old things recur everywhere and to add to his list you can include Complaints handling (where both of the main Defence Unions and the BMA have excellent material on their websites for PMs to follow), failing to demonstrate learning from SEAs as well as complaints, (the practice just files them after discussion and doesn`t check back after a while to see there are no trends or recurrences) and failing to realise that a Risk Assessment has to be sufficiently detailed to identify specific risks in specific areas and a general `look at it` won`t do (Health & Safety, Fire, and Infection Control are the three main culprits). Its` not rocket science but it takes longer to rectify it if you don`t do it right and just look at the damage it does to reputation. Rant over

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