A DOCTOR’S surgery has been placed into special measures after inspectors identified a raft of issues at the practice.

The Old Dispensary in Wimborne has been rated as ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

The practice was given the lowest rating in the areas of being safe, effective and well-led, while it was deemed to be requiring improvement in being responsive and good for being caring.

Following the inspection, the CQC has imposed urgent conditions on the surgery in East Borough to focus the service’s attention on where rapid improvements needed to be made.

This included the practice providing the CQC with an action plan to demonstrate how it will make sure all patients with long term or chronic conditions receive a monitoring review of their care and treatment as well as how they will improve oversight.

Neil Cox, CQC head of inspection, said: “We had numerous concerns when we inspected The Old Dispensary which showed they weren’t providing safe care and treatment to people or monitoring them effectively.

“We also had concerns that patients particularly those with long term conditions or those being prescribed high risk medicines weren’t being safely monitored. This put them at risk of coming to harm. Patients also weren’t having the regular check-ups they needed to avoid their conditions from deteriorating.

“We imposed urgent conditions upon the service to ensure immediate improvements were implemented.

"The practice is also rated as inadequate and has been placed in special measures, which means we will reinspect to check that improvements have been made. If they have not, we will take further action to ensure patients receive safe and effective care.

“In the meantime, we are closely monitoring the service and liaising with our partner agencies to review the improvements that are being implemented.”

The Daily Echo contacted The Old Dispensary, but the surgery said it did not have any comment to make.