Statement of Purpose
CQC Statement of Purpose – November 2024
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (The Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 Part 4), the registering body (Richmond Medical Centre) is required to provide to the Care Quality Commission a statement of purpose.
The name and address of the registered provider is:
Richmond Medical Centre
462 Richmond Road,
Sheffield
S13 8NA
Email syicb-sheffield.richmondmc@nhs.net
Web site www.richmondmedicalcentre.co.uk
Tele no 0114 239 4411
The location ID for Richmond Medical Centre is 1-545948983.
Registered GP Manager: Dr Thomas Alexander Cannon
Legal status
Richmond Medical Centre is a partnership. There are clinical partners:
Dr Rob Liley (m)
MBChB MRCGP
Dr Chris Maden (m)
MBChB, MRCP, MRCGP
Dr Phillipa Rutter (f)
MB BS, MRCGP
Dr Thomas Cannon (m)
MBChB (Hons), MRCS, MRCGP
Description of practice and location
The practice currently has 4 GP partners, 6 salaried GPs with support staff and patient list size of approximately 9568
The majority of patients are attracted from the immediate vicinity and of that list we see the whole population.
The practice premises comprise:
Ground floor:
Staff reception office
Patient wating area
Treatment room
15 consulting rooms
Minor surgery room
Store room.
1x Clean utility and 1x Dirty utility room
1x disabled toilet, 1x Patient toilet 1x staff toilet
1st Floor:
4x first floor Admin offices
First floor Staff room
Meeting room
Staff toilet.
We have a small car park at the side of the practice which also includes disable car parking for three cars.
We do have wheelchair access and in line with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 we have made reasonable adjustments to allow access to disabled people.
The Practice has a General Medical Services contract with the local health organisation and offers directly and locally enhanced services to its patients.
Our Aims and Objectives
The Provision of Excellent Healthcare Services
We aim to provide excellent quality health care services to our registered patients and on occasions to patients referred to us by other GP practices and temporary residents. In order to achieve this, we will:
Listen to our patients and react to their needs.
- Devise services that address the needs of our patients by reacting to patient surveys, advice from our patient advisory forum and learning from any feedback or complaints.
- Offer a variety of methods by which patients can access healthcare, to suit differing needs (on-day appointments, routine appointments, nurse triage, telephone consultations, home visits, online access to appointments etc)
- Put in place special measures to allow patient groups who may have difficulties to access healthcare.
- Take on board physical, psychological, and social aspects of health problems.
- Aim to maximise patients’ well-being by working in partnership to establish their health goals.
Offer good quality health interventions.
- Maintain a strong ethos promoting excellence.
- Help patients to achieve significant improvements in health and well-being.
- Promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Deal effectively with acute medical problems as well as maintaining a comprehensive service for those with chronic health conditions.
- Forge close working links with others who work to improve health and wellbeing in our patient population – GP association, multidisciplinary working with professionals outside the practice, collaboration with non-statutory services.
- Where possible offer additional specialist services at the practice to facilitate patients getting healthcare close to home.
Make sure we keep learning and improving.
- Provide and support a team of healthcare professionals and administrative staff who keep up to date so we can offer the most effective, safe, and evidence-based interventions and advice.
- Make active use of audit and significant event analysis to learn and improve.
- Provide a caring, and supportive learning environment for staff, junior doctors, and medical students to help us all achieve our full potential.
Maintain sound practice infrastructure.
- Provide safe, clean, well-equipped surgery premises.
- Develop a model of health care which is sustainable (financially, for the patients and for the staff) so that patients can continue to benefit.
- Ensure safe, up-to-date administrative and clinical policies and protocols.
The registered activities and service types have been agreed by the medical practice partners in accordance with CQC guidance. Services are described under registered activity and Service Type.
The regulated services provided by the Surgery.
Regulated activity 1
Treatment of disease, disorder and injury
Regulated activity 2
Surgical procedures
Injections
Cuttings
Regulated activity 3
Diagnostic and screening procedures
Regulated activity 4
Family Planning
IUCD’s
Regulated activity 5
Maternity and Midwifery
- The Practice has an open list policy and accepts patients who are resident and newly resident in the defined practice area. We also accept out of area registrations under the out of area scheme.
- We made changes to the way we work during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. They include how we do our job and support providers to keep people safe. They also affect how people communicate with us or send us applications or information. We will be working with our neighbouring practice Woodhouse Medical Centre to provide the COVID vaccine to our patients.
- We provide extended access for our registered patients from Woodhouse Medical Centre Monday to Friday 6.00 to 9.00 and Saturday 9 to 1pm
- We have PCN staff providing some of their services for our registered patients.
Signed by Diane Dickinson , Practice Manager
