Statement of Purpose – October 2023

Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (The Care Quality Commission Registration Regulations 2009 Part 4), the registering body Abbey Medical Practice is required to provide to the Care Quality Commission a statement of purpose.

The name of the registered provider is Abbey Medical Practice, and the address is:

Mannock Medical Centre

Irthlingborough Road
Wellingborough
Northants NN8 1LT
Telephone Number: 01933 233200

Branch Practice

6 Broad Street
Earls Barton
Northants NN6 0ND

Practice Web Site – www.abbeymedicalpractice.uk.com

CQC Provider ID

1-199757863

Registered GP Manager: Dr Kate Hughes, Senior Partner

Practice Manager: Alexia Tongue

Abbey Medical Practice is a Partnership.  There are 7 GP partners:

Dr Kate Hughes (Female)

Dr Azhar Ali (Male)

Dr Ananda Senadhipathy (Male)

Dr Rajat Srivastava (Male)

Dr Prakash Lagisetty (Male)

Dr Sarah Videlo (Female)

Dr Baz Khan (Male)

The practice also employs 3 part-time salaried GPs.

Dr Vicko Tabain (Male)

Dr Ahmed El-Rabba (Male)

Dr Delia Ile (Female)

We have a GP registrars, a further 6 Advanced Nurse Practitioners (including specialist diabetic nurses),  Clinical Pharmacists, Healthy Minds Practitioner, 5 Practice Nurses and 3 Health Care Assistants to provide clinical care to our patients. In addition we also have 2 Care Co-ordinators that support our veterans and carers.

We are part of the Wellingborough and District Primary Care Networking, closely working with other Practices in Wellingborough. As a collaboration we share the services of Mental Health Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedic Service, Physios and specialist Paediatric Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

The main surgery is located in a modern building close to the town centre of Wellingborough, with public parking available. We have a small branch practice in the village of Earls Barton. Patients are able to attend either premises for care and treatment.

The Practice has a contract with the local health organisation and offers directly and locally enhanced services to its patients.

Our Aims and Objectives

The Practice is committed to delivering a service, which is easily accessible to all patients, combining the personal care of the traditional family doctor with the best that modern general practice can provide.

We aim to:

• Ensure high quality, safe and effective personal medical services and environment
• Be a patient centred organisation, delivering outstanding customer service
• Provide monitored, audited and continually improved healthcare services
• Provide healthcare which is available to the whole of our registered population and create a partnership between patient and health professionals which ensures mutual respect, holistic care and continuous learning and training
• To ensure that our patients are treated with dignity and respect, in complete confidence and with the utmost discretion: Offering a chaperone at all times.
• Ensuring the patient sees the most appropriate clinician suitable to the patient clinical need
• To provide our patients and staff with an environment which is safe, friendly and clean
• Improve Clinical Governance and Evidence Based Practice
• Improve Clinical and Non-clinical risk management
• Reduce risk in specific clinical risk areas and facilities
• Improve vigilance for unforeseen emergencies
• Continually review and improve services offered to patients
• Encourage the development of an active and effective patient participation group
• Recruit, retain and develop a highly motivated and appropriately skilled workforce
• To enhance performance of the workforce
• Guide the employees in accordance with the Equalities Scheme
• Ensure effective management and governance systems
• Participate effectively in the Locality Group of GP Practices
• Work with local Practices providing enhanced care to our patients
• Meet key targets set by NHS England and Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group
• To optimise performance against key targets and core standards
• The provision of accessible healthcare which is proactive to healthcare changes, efficiency and innovation and development.
• To meet Annual Health Check targets
• To improve communication between the surgery and the patients

The registered activities and service types have been agreed by the medical practice Surgery’s Practice Manager and Partners in accordance with CQC guidance. Services are described under registered activity and Service Type.

The regulated services provided by the Practice

• Medical care and treatment in accordance with our core GMS contracts: Monday to Friday 08:00 – 18:30
• Extended Hours before 8:00 and after 18:30 on some weekdays and adhoc Saturdays.
• Enhanced Access weekday evenings 18:30 – 20:00 and weekends/Bank Holidays 08:00 – 12:00 at the Wellingborough hub currently located within Albany House Medical Centre
• NHS relevant prescriptions and medications or a private prescription can be issued.
• Immunisations, e.g. childhood immunisations, flu, COVID, travel (NHS only)
• Weight loss and Dietician clinic lifestyle management
• Long Term Condition clinics
• Asthma/Respiratory review clinics
• Diabetic Clinic – The practice operates diabetes clinics each week to provide ongoing care for our diabetic patients, this is run by trained nurses and supervised by GP partners
• Well Women Clinics including smears, coil and implant clinics, HRT
• Baby checks at age 6-10 weeks and post natal review
• Health Checks – the practice offers health checks to patients aged 40 and over
• Dressings
• Phlebotomy – the practice offers patients to have their blood tests completed here, also available at Isebrook Hospital
• Minor Surgery and joint injections – The minor operations are held by Dr Khan and Dr Lagisetty and joint injections are offered by First Contact Physio at the practice
• Dedicated Healthy Minds Practitioner for patients with mental health problems
• Clinical Pharmacist appointments for long term condition review, medication reviews and medication related queries
• Social Prescribers which allows GPs to refer patients to non-clinical services, which are often run by charities, with the aim of helping then to take greater control of their own health
• Paediatric nurse for the under 5s based at the Wellingborough hub
• Home Visiting service provided by the Practice and designated Paramedic service for acute and long term condition review
• Adult and child safeguarding MDT reviews – the practice holds regular team meetings with other service providers reviewing palliative care and safeguarding issues/concerns
• Executive & employee medicals – Our GP’s are able to carry out medical report and review.
• Assessment of employees returning to work after illness
• Cervical Screening – at the practice our nurses are qualified to carry out cervical screening and test in the form of cervical smears
• Midwifery services provided at KGH and NGH

Abbey Medical Practice (and Wellingborough and District Hub) has commissioned Core Prescribing Solutions to provide an outsourced Clinical Pharmacy Service. Although Clinical Pharmacy Service organisations are exempt from CQC registration, Core Prescribing Solutions works to CQC standards and has a robust quality assurance approach based upon meeting national guidelines and best practice

Our practice ethos is to strive towards a partnership between patients and health professionals based on the following key facets:

Mutual Respect

We endeavour to treat all our patients with dignity, respect and honesty. Everyone at the surgery is committed to deliver an excellent service.  We ask all patients to highlight any discrepancies and to offer the same commitment in return. We provide safe, effective and compassion to all individuals.

‘Holistic’ Care

We treat ‘patients’ and not illnesses. This means that we are equally interested in the physical, psychological and social aspects of your individual care.

Continuity of Care and the ‘Therapeutic relationship’

Building and maintaining a strong relationship between doctors, health professionals, and patients is essential to the way we work. This is especially so in the management of ongoing problems or long-term illness. Although we would encourage you to continue seeing the same health professional, sometimes it is more appropriate or necessary for you to see an alternative clinician, for example an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or an alternative G.P. Wherever possible we will try to accommodate your requests to see the same G.P, however, if you have a new problem and the doctor or nurse that you normally see is not available, or you would like to see someone else then we would encourage you to see any of the doctors or nurses at the practice.

Learning and Training

As a training practice, we contribute to the education and development of future generations of General Practitioners, medical students, nurses, apprentices and other professionals.

We believe in “life-long learning” and all the health professionals here, and administrative staff, undergo an annual appraisal where learning and development needs are identified. We also recognise the benefit of supported learning for our patients and families in enhancing your ability to manage and deal with both ‘self-limiting’ and long-term illnesses.

Open List

The Practice has an open list policy and accepts patients who are resident and newly resident in the defined practice area,

 

Signed by
Dr K Hughes
Senior Partner