Our patient's care, treatment and support achieves good outcomes, promotes a good quality of life and is based on the best available evidence
Our leadership, management and governance of the organisation assures the delivery of high quality person-centered care, support learning and innovation and promotes an open and fair culture
Patients and their carers are treated with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion. We involve people in their care. We care for carers and provide emotional support and wellbeing for our patients and for staff working in our Practices
We ensure patients recieve personalised care that is responsive to their needs and we recognise and respond when those needs change. We tailor our service to support flexibility, choice and continuity of care for every patient.
We have reliable systems, processes and practices in place to keep people safe and safeguarded from abuse. We learn from incidents and make improvements when things go wrong.
Dr Astin is our CQC Registered Manager. It is her role to make sure we are meeting our CQC service standards
Georgie is our Nurse Manager. She is responsible for ensuring that our services are provided safely and effectively and that our nursing team deliver compassionate care
Emmy is our Managing Partner. She is responsible for ensuring that the Practice runs smoothly and that staff recieve the appropriate support, training and professional development to enable them to carry out their duties
Dr Simon Church is our Senior Partner. He is responsible for ensuring that the Practice has a robust governance structure in accordance with the fundamental standards of care.
Alex is our Patient Services Manager and is responsible for managing our Patient Experience team, consisting of Call Handlers and Receptionists. He also ensures our complaints process is adequate and that we use patient feedback to improve our services
Steph is our HR Manager, she has accountability for our people management and processes. Steph has been ensuring that all staff have adequate employment checks and can carry out their role competently and safely
Paula is part of our Patient Experience Team and is currently working on improving patient engagement in Practice. She is making sure our patients have got easy access to the care they need and is encouraging patients to feedback on their experiences
Mel is our Carers Deputy, she is responsible for making sure that we are caring for carers and that we meet the standards set out by Carers Support Wiltshire. The Practice has been awarded a platinum status for our work with carers
CQC identified that our cervical screening figures were note We have decreased the backlog of cervical screening which had come about due to suspending the service during COVID-19. We have put on extra clinics and patients can now book in to our usual clinics.
We have ensured that all staff have access to online Child and Adult Safeguarding training, which is adequate for their role. We are also engaging with BSW CCG Safeguarding leads to ensure that our most vulnerable patients are identified and reviewed
We have introduced a new internal communication policy and are making the best use of technology to ensure that we are communicating effectively across all three sites
We've recently been reinspected against the warning notices which were issued and we were happy that CQC could see evidence of the improvements we have made. See for yourself here
How our Patient Participation Group are helping our patients express their views
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