CQC position · group summary · prepared for Dr Abir Shaikh
A multi-site NHS GP partnership across south London and Surrey. The CQC register records five locations under the Bourne Health Partnership provider registration; the group's own website presents ten practices, so this read covers what the register attributes to this registration — not the whole footprint.
Prepared 17 August 2026 · every rating below verified against the live CQC register the same day
The 30-second read
Already booked for 27 August — use this only if you need a different time. Alexey Litvin, GreenM's CEO, takes the call. Nothing to prepare — we bring the analysis.
Your published position
Every location under the Bourne Health Partnership registration displays Good on the live register today. What the framework transition makes visible is the age and the provenance of those Goods: four are carried over from previous registrations of the same practices, and the fifth — Keston Medical Practice — was published in June 2017.
Registered locations
5
under this provider registration (register lists the group's other practices separately)
5 of 5
displaying Good
published Oct 2016 – Jan 2022; none scored under the current framework
4 of 5
never assessed here
at their current registrations — one of CQC's three named re-assessment priorities
9.2y
age of Keston's Good
published 2 Jun 2017 — past the 7-year primary-care threshold CQC has named
| Practice | Displayed rating | Report published | Registered here | Register status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keston Medical Practice Purley · HQ | GOOD | 2 Jun 2017 · 9.2y | 14 Apr 2014 | Assessed at this registration; all five key questions Good. CQC reviewed its information on 6 Jul 2023 and did not reassess. |
| New Addington Group Practice New Addington | GOOD | 6 Jan 2022 · 4.6y | 23 Jul 2025 | NEVER ASSESSED HERE — rating from the previous registration |
| Thornton Road Surgery Croydon | GOOD | 18 Nov 2016 · 9.7y | 23 Jul 2025 | NEVER ASSESSED HERE — rating from the previous registration |
| Portland Medical Centre South Norwood | GOOD | 17 Aug 2017 · 9.0y | 27 Nov 2025 | NEVER ASSESSED HERE — rating from the previous registration |
| Esher Green Surgery Esher | GOOD | 14 Oct 2016 · 9.8y | 21 Jan 2026 | NEVER ASSESSED HERE — rating from the previous registration |
Per the live CQC register, checked 17 August 2026. Rating ages computed from each report's published date. The spread between the group's newest and oldest displayed rating is 5.2 years — and every one of them predates the current scored framework, so no practice in the group has a score to carry forward.
This table is most of what we would walk through live — the 30-minute walkthrough starts from it. Booked for 27 August.
The clock
OCT 2016 – AUG 2017
Four of the five displayed ratings are published — Esher Green (Oct 2016), Thornton Road (Nov 2016), Keston (Jun 2017), Portland (Aug 2017).
JAN 2022
New Addington's displayed rating is published — the newest evidence anywhere in the estate.
JUL 2025 – JAN 2026
Four practices are re-registered under Bourne Health Partnership. Each starts a fresh register entry marked "we have not inspected this service yet".
JUN – OCT 2026
CQC pilot assessments run under the new frameworks — a stated target of 9,000+ reports by September; the frameworks take effect at the end of 2026.
17 AUG 2026
No Bourne Health location has been assessed under the current scored framework — and none has a first rating at its new registration.
One line owns the framework story, because you have already read it: the six shifts from the guide you downloaded are the rules this position is judged against next.
The pattern
Because no Bourne Health location carries a scored current-framework assessment, there is no own-score benchmark to draw — that is a statement of the register, not a gap in this analysis. What can be drawn precisely is the bar: the current state of the GP practices already rated under the framework your practices will meet.
Rated GP practices
11.1%
of the 1,222 GP practices rated under the current framework sit below Good today (85.8% Good, 3.1% Outstanding)
Rating age, GP register
47.5%
of GP locations with a datable rating are past the 7-year primary-care threshold; the median GP rating is 6.7 years old
Never assessed
26.8%
of the GP register sits never-assessed at its current registration — the group's four re-registered practices are in this population
Where rated GP practices slip is concentrated and predictable. Per quality statement, the rated GP cohort (n = 1,222) scores lowest on:
The statement that decides well-led. Typical findings: audit cycles that exist but do not close; oversight that lives in individuals rather than systems; multi-site groups where each practice evidences differently. Across every sector, 98% of services rated below Good are below Good on well-led — the rating almost never falls because of the care.
Typical findings: medication review backlogs, high-risk drug monitoring gaps, safety-alert actions not evidenced. In a group, the question becomes whether ten prescribing systems produce one auditable answer.
Typical findings: induction and supervision records incomplete, recruitment checks not consistently evidenced, locum governance thinner than employed-staff governance — a pressure that grows with every site added.
What we'd work through together
The four never-assessed registrations — and which evidence base greets a first inspection
time-sensitive
What Keston's 2017 evidence still proves, nine years on
time-sensitive
Governance consistency across ten practices under one brand — the "same standard, every unit" test
time-sensitive
The two statements where rated GP peers most often slip — governance and medicines optimisation — read against your systems
continuous
The evidence estate: which systems hold CQC-relevant data across the group, and who owns each
continuous
A first-rating playbook — what the first scored rating at each new registration sets for the whole brand
continuous
1. Turns on which of the four sites' day-one evidence — not their inherited Goods — would satisfy an inspector arriving unannounced; only your side can see that. 2. Turns on how much of the 2017 inspection's evidence base still describes how Keston runs today. 3. Turns on whether the practices evidence the same standard the same way — the register already shows five entries; your site presents ten. 4. Turns on what your prescribing and audit systems can produce on demand, per practice. 5. Turns on an inventory only you hold: clinical systems, HR, complaints, audits — and their owners. 6. Turns on which site CQC's named priorities reach first, and what its first descriptor-led rating would broadcast about the group.
All six are covered live on the call — none of them is homework.
Sources: the live CQC register (all five location pages verified 17 August 2026) · GreenM analysis of the CQC register and 68,000+ inspection reports; GP-sector figures re-derived from the register on 17 August 2026 (1,222 GP practices rated under the current framework; per-statement figures from the same cohort) · bournehealth.co.uk, checked 17 August 2026, which states "All of our practices are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission" — true as displayed; this page reads the dates behind it. Ratings quoted per CQC's published register; nothing here asserts what CQC has scheduled or will decide. Illustrative reading of the draft frameworks; the register state is the verified part.
