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Stratum Clinic

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

38 Park End Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 1JD (01865) 320790

Provided and run by:
Stratum Clinics Limited

Important: We are carrying out a review of quality at Stratum Clinic. We will publish a report when our review is complete. Find out more about our inspection reports.

Report from 28 February 2024 assessment

Ratings

  • Overall

    Good

  • Safe

    Good

  • Effective

    Good

  • Caring

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Well-led

    Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 1 to 3 May 2024. This assessment was to follow up on concerns and breaches of regulation following our previous inspection in September 2023. We assessed 17 quality statements across the safe, effective and well-led key questions. We have scored each of these quality statements and the service is rated as good overall, but we identified a breach of regulation and we rated well-led as requires improvement. Some of the services provided are not regulated by the CQC so we did not look at them. We found that significant improvements had now been made in relation to managing patient safety since the last inspection. Medicines and infection prevention and control were managed in a safe way, although we found that the storage of emergency medicines could be improved. Systems to manage risk, staffing levels and safeguarding were effective. Patient needs were assessed and evidence-based care was being delivered, with outcomes being monitored. However, whilst we found that areas of well-led were effective, some areas of governance required improvement. Clinical oversight was not led effectively and therefore some audits were not fit for purpose and audit was minimal to identify if national guidance was being met. We found one breach of regulation in relation to regulation 17.

People's experience of this service

Patient feedback identified that patients had positive experiences of using the service overall.