The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published the ratings of 37 more GP practices, including one outstanding rating and three rated inadequate.
Despite serving the fifth most deprived ward in the country, and second most densely populated area in England (London is the first), Waterloo Road Medical Centre in Blackpool received an outstanding rating following an inspection in July.
Waterloo Road regularly supported GP trainees who were in need of extension to their training and achieved the Navajo Kite Mark as a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friendly practice.
The practice has a comprehensive sexual health programme that reached even unregistered local people, and offered a referral to a family nurse practitioner to all teenage pregnancy mothers to support and coach them through their pregnancy and first year of their child’s life.
Responding to the rating, Sue McMillan CQC’s deputy chief inspector of general practice in the north said: “The area’s teenage pregnancy rate is the second worst in the North West, so I was particularly impressed with the referral system – to a family nurse practitioner for all teenage pregnancy mothers that supported and coached them through their pregnancy.”
In contrast, Ashfield Medical Centre in Nottinghamshire was put into special measures, along with Barton Surgery in Plymstock and LPS – The Surgery in Birmingham.
See the full list of ratings below:
GP practices listed by CCG area and rating:
· Waterloo Road Medical Centre, Blackpool CCG: Outstanding
· Bean Road Medical Practice, Dudley CCG: Good
· Binfield Surgery, Bracknell and Ascot: Good
· Broadway Medical Centre, NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG : Good
· CB Patels & Partners, Brent: Good
· Corner Place Surgery, South Devon and Torbay: Good
· Dr Bouch and Partners, NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG: Good
· Dr Harminderjeet Surdhar, NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham: Good
· Dr Manohar Sohanpal, Thanet: Good
· Dr Peter Gini, Birmingham Sandwell and West : Good
· Dr Michael Zaryckyj and Dr Martin Atherton, NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG: Good
· Drs Twomey, Murphy, Braddick, Griffiths, Fearon & Kirwan, NEW Devon: Good
· Eastlands Medical Practice, North Manchester CCG: Good
· Emmer Green Surgery, North & West Reading: Good
· Harbourside Family Practice , Bristol: Good
· Hatton Medical Practice, NHS Hounslow CCG: Good
· Newington Road Surgery Limited, Thanet: Good
· North Brink Practice, NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG: Good
· Sackville Medical Centre, Brighton and Hove: Good
· Severn Valley Medical Practice, South Worcestershire: Good
· South Hylton Surgery, Sunderland CCG : Good
· South Lewisham Group Practice, Lewisham CCG: Good
· St Mary’s Surgery, Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group: Good
· Station Road Surgery, Bexley: Good
· Taw Hill Medical Centre, NHS Swindon CCG: Good
· The Beacon Healthcare Centre, Isle of Wight CCG: Good
· The Euxton Medical Centre, NHS Chorley and South Ribble: Good
· The Lawson Practice, NHS City and Hackney: Good
· The Northern Medical Centre, Islington: Good
· Wellspring Surgery, NHS Nottingham City CCG : Good
· Wetherby Surgery, Leeds North: Good
· Loddon Vale Practice, Wokingham CCG: Requires improvement
· The Linden Medical Group, Nottingham West : Requires improvement
· The Practice, Whitehawk Road, Brighton and Hove: Requires improvement
· Dr Shibopriyo Mukhopadhyay, Mansfield and Ashfield: Inadequate
· Dr Steven Nimmo (Barton Surgery Plymstock), NEW Devon: Inadequate
· LPS – the Surgery, Birmingham & Black Country CCG: Inadequate
