Brinnington Health Centre first in Stockport to achieve Quality
Practice Award
Staff at the Brinnington Health Centre in Stockport
are presented with a Quality Practice Award by RCGP Chairman
Professor Steve Field
01.04.08
Staff at Brinnington Health Centre were celebrating on Friday
(28/3) when the Chairman of the Royal College of General
Practitioners (RCGP) Professor Steve Field arrived to present them
with a Quality Practice Award for excellence in primary care.
The practice is only the third in Cheshire to receive the award
which takes 18 months to achieve and places high demands on the
skills and input of the entire practice team. Staff are
required to submit a portfolio of written evidence set against 23
sets of criteria including Health Promotion, Patient and Public
Involvement and Team Working and are visited by a team of four
assessors before the award is presented.
Professor Steve Field, who
presented the award, remarked: “I grew up quite close to this area
and it’s wonderful to come back and see such a fine example of
excellent health care being provided to the local community.
Undertaking the Quality Practice Award is no mean feat and the
staff of Brinnington are to be commended for their outstanding
commitment to their patients. Coming here today also gave me
the opportunity to take time out for a quick visit to my parents
for a cup of tea so everyone’s a winner!”
Paul Ansbro, Practice Manager at
Brinnington Health Centre, said: “The practice found the experience
of undertaking the Quality Practice Award very rewarding and we are
extremely proud of our success. The entire practice and
primary healthcare team have worked extremely hard over a number of
years to provide an excellent quality of healthcare for the people
of Brinnington and this award is a culmination of all that hard
work.”
The two practices look after 8,600
patients in Brinnington, Stockport comprising a good mix of young
families and older patients. The practice also provides a shared
care drug service and two of the GPs are involved in community drug
team. Brinnington also provides chronic disease management services
to patients and has a Children's Mental Health Development Worker
who works closely with the local schools.
Recently, the practice began to
produce a monthly newsletter, signposting patients to new and
existing services. They have also recently started to provide
Diabetes Information Days at the local church hall providing
patients with advice about the condition and giving them the
opportunity to speak to a dietician.
Ends
Press contact: Heather
Whitney or Huw Beale 020 7344 3137/3129 press@rcgp.org.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
Practices achieving QPA have found that the process encourages a
real sense of team spirit, pride in each other's areas of work and
an improved understanding of working together towards a better
environment for patients and staff. The criteria is continually
modified and developed further to reflect the ongoing changes in
general practice. Practices who undertake the assessment are
therefore actively encouraged to feed into the development
process.
The Royal College of General
Practitioners is a network of over 34,000 family doctors working to
improve care for patients. We work to encourage and maintain the
highest standards of general medical practice and act as the voice
of GPs on education, training, research and clinical standards.