{"id":658967,"date":"2026-06-26T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:59:08","slug":"little-lever-health-centre-2-contract-terminated-after-watchdog-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658967\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Lever Health Centre 2 contract terminated after watchdog report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Inspectors said some staff at the Little Lever Health Centre 2<\/a> in Bolton, believe a \u2018blame culture\u2019 existed at the practice.\n<\/p>\n

\n Earlier this month, NHS Greater Manchester appointed Rochdale Health Alliance as caretaker provider at the practice after the Care Quality Commission<\/a> (CQC) said the practice had breached \u2018safe care\u2019 legislation over a number of months.\n<\/p>\n

\n NHS Greater Manchester said it had acted to terminate the contract following the damning inspections that it \u2018recognised may be concerning for patients\u2019.\n<\/p>\n

\n In a report published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) within the past week, Little Lever Health Centre 2, previously run by Dr Thiruppathy Subramanian, was rated overall as being inadequate.\n<\/p>\n

\n The practice delivers primary medical care to approximately 2,862 patients in the town<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n The CQC initially served a warning notice on Dr Thiruppathy Subramanian in December, 2024 for failing to meet the regulations related to safe care and treatment, good governance and fit and proper persons employed at Little Lever Health Centre.\n<\/p>\n

\n A further assessment in March 2025 by the CQC, again rated the practice inadequate and highlighted specific issues that needed to be improved.\n<\/p>\n

\n In an assessment report published on June 16 this year, it was again rated overall inadequate, remaining in special measures.\n<\/p>\n

\n Of the five categories rated after a follow-up inspection in April, the practice was rated inadequate on being safe and well-led.\n<\/p>\n

\n Regarding being effective and responsive, the latest report found the surgery requires improvement.\n<\/p>\n

\n Inspectors said that feedback from patients during the assessment was positive, adding \u2018but they told us there was often a delay in seeing the GP after their given appointment time\u2019.\n<\/p>\n

\n The surgery is one of two separate GP practices based in the Little Lever Health Centre \u2013 this month\u2019s CQC inspection report was for Dr Subramanian\u2019s practice only.\n<\/p>\n

\n Under the category \u2018well-led\u2019, the report said: \u201cThe provider did not have a clear shared vision, strategy and culture.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey did not understand the challenges and the needs of people and their communities.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey did not have a formal improvement plan and instead had some dedicated administration sessions which they said they used to monitor improvements but did not note anything down.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe spoke to several staff members during our assessment.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe were told there was a blame culture and the provider did not take responsibility for any issues that had been identified at the practice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The report said that two previous assessments had highlighted specific issues that needed to be improved.\n<\/p>\n

\n The CQC said it had previously told the provider how they had breached the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and Regulated Activities Regulations 2014.\n<\/p>\n

\n The assessment published this month found that the required improvements had not been made and the provider was still in breach of the same regulations.\n<\/p>\n

\n Summarising the findings the CQC said they would continue action \u2018in line with our enforcement powers\u2019.\n<\/p>\n

\n The report said: \u201cAt this assessment we found the provider has failed to make required improvements and is still in breach of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, good governance and fit and proper persons employed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for NHS Greater Manchester said: \u201cWe acknowledge the Care Quality Commission\u2019s latest rating of Little Lever Health Centre-2 as inadequate and recognise that this may be concerning for patients.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cOur priority is to ensure patients continue to have access to safe, appropriate and good-quality GP services.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cSince the latest CQC inspection, we have appointed Rochdale Health Alliance as caretaker provider.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cServices continue to be available from the practice and patients should continue to contact the surgery in the usual way.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cRochdale Health Alliance is now providing clinical leadership and working with NHS Greater Manchester and local partners to support staff and deliver the improvements required, until long-term arrangements are agreed. This is a well-established NHS approach to make sure there is no disruption to patient care.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe will continue to monitor the practice closely and take any further action needed to ensure patients receive the standard of care they should expect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspectors said some staff at the Little Lever Health Centre 2 in Bolton, believe a \u2018blame culture\u2019 existed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658967","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\/658967","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=658967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}