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Block Lane Surgery

Type Primary Medical Services Region North West Last inspected 5 May 2022

Archived This service was archived (deregistered) by CQC on 12 Jul 2023. The ratings below are historical and do not reflect a current service.

Location rating: Requires Improvement  View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location, last inspected 5 May 2022. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Requires Improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Requires Improvement
Well-led
Requires Improvement

Most recent report indexed for actions

The date and rating here are from an individual report, not necessarily the location's latest assessment. Report ratings are extracted with AI; verify the original PDF.

Type: Comprehensive inspection
Date: 5 May 2022
Rating extracted from this report: Requires Improvement
Actions indexed: 2 must-do 3 should-do

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AI-extracted 17 Feb 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 2 must-do 3 should-do

Must-do actions (2)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 2
Must do
Safe
Ensure care and treatment is provided in a safe way to patients.
Regulation: Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment
⚠ The provider had failed to provide care and treatment in a safe way for service users. In particular: • One patient prescribed Leflunomide was overdue the monitoring required as set out in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). • One patient prescribed Warfarin had not had an international normalised ratio (INR) …
Must-do action 2 of 2
Must do
Well-led
Establish effective systems and processes to ensure good governance in accordance with the fundamental standards of care.
Regulation: Regulation 17 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Good governance
⚠ The provider had failed to establish systems and processes that operated effectively to ensure compliance with requirements to demonstrate good governance. In particular: • Some staff working at the practice were employed by a different provider and there was no formal arrangement for sharing the staff. • Required checks were …

Should-do actions (3)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 3
Should do
Effective
Carry out second cycles of their clinical audits.
Should-do action 2 of 3
Should do
Effective
Improve their cervical screening data.
Should-do action 3 of 3
Should do
Safe
Add alerts to all family members of children on the safeguarding register.