{"id":58656,"date":"2025-08-11T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:24:09","slug":"st-martins-gate-surgery-positive-inspection-for-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58656\/","title":{"rendered":"St Martin&#8217;s Gate Surgery: positive inspection for centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  St Martin&#8217;s Gate Surgery, Newtown Road, Worcester, was assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) between June 4 and June 10, 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The surgery, which also operates a branch surgery in St Peter&#8217;s and cares for more than 14,000 patients,\u00a0received an overall good rating, and was reported as good in the five main categories: safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Among some of the surgery&#8217;s strengths, the\u00a0report said: &#8220;The practice supported people to manage their health and wellbeing to maximise their independence, choice and control.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The service supported people to live healthier lives and, where possible, reduce their future needs for care and support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The practice had a GP who had a specialist interest in women&#8217;s health and had completed additional training in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to support women who were going through menopause.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Staff focused on identifying risks to patients&#8217; health, including those in the last 12 months of their lives, patients at risk of developing a long-term condition, and those with caring responsibilities.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25350281.droitwich-spa-hospital-celebrates-40-years-care\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hospital celebrates four decades at the heart of the community<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25359764.aunty-peggy-celebrates-102nd-birthday-garden-party\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Aunty Peggy&#8217; celebrates 102nd birthday with garden party<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25363471.ceo-jocelyn-anderson-latest-wmrsasc\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The factors that can combine to complicate grief<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, despite the overall good results, there were aspects in which CQC suggested the surgery can improve, including ensuring a safe environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report stated: &#8220;The practice detected and controlled potential risks in the care environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Portable appliance testing and calibration of equipment were completed annually to ensure equipment was safe to use.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;However, we did find equipment at their branch site that had not been calibrated, and leaders told us they had a plan in place for this to be completed.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The full report can be found on the CQC website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Martin&#8217;s Gate Surgery, Newtown Road, Worcester, was assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) between June 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-58656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58656","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=58656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}