Little Weighton Branch Surgery

Little Weighton Branch Surgery

PROBLEMS-Standards of facilities

especially in light of CQCStandards of clinical care

offered in facilityLITTLE WEIGHTON

BRANCH SURGERY DOES NOT MEET CURRENT REQUIREMENTS

Poor access Not DDA compliant Limited equipment to

deal with emergency situations- no oxygen/nebuliser/ECG machine

Confidentiality concerns

Difficult to comply with good practice such as offering chaperone

Little Weighton Surgery – Patient Access

Patient Facilities

Patient Facilities

Practice Boundary

20715 patients registered with the practice 611 patient registered in Little Weighton Only ¼ of Little Weighton patients have used

the service in the last 12 months Of the 150 patients who have used Little

Weighton Surgery ¾ of their total appointments have been at South Cave or Brough Surgery

406 appointments at LW 95006 appointments offered over the entire

practice in the last 12 months-

Appointments

We are committed to providing a high quality of care and NHS England commissions us to provide a full range of

General medical services which requires access to the wider team and facilities chaperones – HCAs, NP, PNs, Counsellors, Minor surgery, retinal screening, pharmacy advisors

CQC assesses us on how we meet the requirements for a high quality of care

The Disability Discrimination Act demands that we comply with statutory legislation

Quality of care

We are trying to recruit new clinicians at the time of a National GP recruitment crisis and a squeeze on funding

We need to concentrate our resources to maximise benefit to our whole patient population we have several rural villages in our area

We currently have 10 Full time equivalent GPs and 2 Full time equivalent nurse practitioners but in 2014 we have lost Drs Hart and Lyons and two salaried doctors in 2014 and we are stretched

We need there to be a realistic expectation of what we can deliver to all of our patients – 8am-8pm 7 days a week is coming but no new staff (everyone can’t work longer than their current 12 hour days)

There is a complaints culture – increasing complaints from non- LW patients about access to appointments with our reducing resource of personnel

Sustainability of existing services

Continue to provide healthcare at home for the housebound

Continue to visit patients who are too unwell to travel Expand prescription delivery service as required Support the Village Hall Committee in their bid- looking

at how the facility could be used in the future once of a sufficient standard

Work with the parish council and patient groups to look at transport options-such as the volunteer driver schemes that operate in other areas or pilot schemes

As opportunities arise engage with schemes looking at how to offer health care remotely-eg SKYPE

Encourage representation of Little Weighton on our PPG-Patient Participation Group

Our Committment

Consultation Process

20th October

2014Practice

inital meeting

with NHS

England

30th Novembe

r2014

Start of patient

consultation and posters

put up at all sites

Beryl Catterall informed

5th Novembe

r 2014Practice met with

Parish Council

18th December

2014End of the Consultatio

n Period and

deadline for Patient Feedback

22nd December

Formal Application to be submitted

to NHS England to

include PATIENT

FEEDBACK AND LETTERS

NHS will take the

Application to their Primary Care Meeting and the Public Overview and

Scrutiny Panel

Meetings

NHS England will make

the overall decision