{"id":354820,"date":"2026-01-06T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354820\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:05:32","slug":"gp-practice-in-hereford-rated-good-by-cqc-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354820\/","title":{"rendered":"GP practice in Hereford rated good by CQC inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Belmont Medical Centre, in Eastholme Avenue, was rated good in all areas by the Care Quality Commission inspectors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report, published on November 20 following an inspection on August 20-21, concluded the practice is robustly &#8216;effective&#8217; and &#8216;caring&#8217; towards its patients.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Inspectors found that the practice &#8216;pro-actively encouraged people to give feedback and used feedback from people who used the service to make improvements&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Feedback reviewed including data from the NHS &#8216;Friends and Family Test&#8217; showed the vast majority of patient experience about the practice was positive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The results of the National GP Patient Survey found that 62 per cent of patients described their experience of contacting the practice as &#8216;good&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This was in line with the local average, and stands above the national average percentage of 53 per cent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  86% of patients reported the healthcare professional they saw or spoke to was good at treating them with care and concern during their last general practice appointment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  88% of patients reported the healthcare professional they saw or spoke to was good at listening to them during their last general practice appointment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  84% of patients found the reception and administrative team at Belmont Medical Centre helpful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The comprehensive assessment gave the practice a &#8216;good&#8217; rating in all areas including safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a result of the inspection, Belmont Medical Centre received an overall &#8220;good&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belmont Medical Centre, in Eastholme Avenue, was rated good in all areas by the Care Quality Commission inspectors.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-354820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}