A MEDICAL centre which was placed into special measures has made “little or no improvements” in six months.

Shanti Medical Centre was placed into special measures by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after it was graded inadequate in November.

The centre in St Helens Road was told last year to improve many of its safety procedures after it presented the CQC with a list of more than 28 serious incidents over 12 months, including one with the the potential for a serious or even fatal repercussions.

Professor Steve Field, the chief inspector of general practice at the CQC said in his most recent report: “We found that on this focused inspection little or no improvements had been made since our last inspection and the warning notices had not been met.”

Shanti Medical Centre was served three warning notices and this focused inspection looked at the safety of the practice.

Prof Field’s report found incidents were not being documented properly. He said: “One member of medical staff told us there was no point in documenting and reporting incidents because there was no one to discuss them with.”

The management of waste was ‘not effective’ and clinical waste bins were found to contain non-clinical waste. The report said: “In one of the rooms an old nail brush was seen as being used at the sink alongside an old, half-used tube of lubricant with no lid on it.”

One of the enforcement notices related to whether staff were ‘fit and proper’, the CQC inspection, carried out at the end of March, found: “There was still no evidence of appropriate recruitment checks despite the fact that a warning notice was issued following the previous inspection.”

The practice came under fire last year because it was not opening on time at 8am but the CQC noted this was no longer the case. Prof Field said: “This service will be kept under review and if needed could be escalated to urgent enforcement action.”

The medical centre declined to comment.