GP surgery close to Peterborough rated as 'Requires Improvement' by Care Quality Commission

The GP surgery, located on Thorney Road, has been rated as requiring improvement in four areas following an inspection carried out in June and published in December.

The surgery was rated as ‘Required Improvement’ in the Well-led, Caring, Effective and Safe categories as well as overall. For the responsive category, the surgery was rated as ‘Good.’

The Care Qaultiy Commission has previously served a warning notice against the surgery on October 9, 2025 under safe care and treatment and poor governance systems, placing people at risk of harm.

The report noted a lack of oversight of systems and processes, including with significant events, complaints, risk assessments and of the environment as well as a lack of oversight around multiple issues.

The report stated: “We found a breach in regulation under safe care and treatment and as a result took enforcement action asking the practice to take appropriate actions within 3 months to meet the areas of improvement identified.

"We found all emergency medicines were not always available and where risk assessments were in place these did not give sufficient information around mitigation in place, patients at risk of lack of appropriate monitoring and review of medicines and poor management of blood pressure readings.

"We also found a breach in regulation under good governance and as a result took enforcement action asking the practice to take appropriate actions within 3 months to meet the areas of improvement identified. We found a lack of oversight of systems and processes to manage significant events, complaints, staff breaks, clinical and environmental risk assessments, in line with legislative requirements.

"Appropriate governance and management processes were not in place for managing and monitoring when patients have a raised blood pressure and a lack of assurance around accuracy of patient records.”

The report did go onto note that the practice demonstrated they were keen to improve from the issues identified and had already developed an approach to ensure more consistent outcomes for patients, staff, learning and culture.

It added that ‘the practice had proactively contacted us with their own action plan to address issues identified from our clinical searches and were working to ensure appropriate medicines reviews and monitoring was in place.’

The Peterborough Telegraph has contacted Abbeview Surgery for comment.