A Barnet GP practice received high marks in the latest round of care inspections.

The Care Quality Commission released reports on 86 GP practices this week which received satisfactory ratings.

It gave the Pennine Drive Practice a ‘good’ rating, which is the second highest possible, praising its responsiveness, patient care and leadership.

While most of its attributes were deemed good, the practice’s safety was given a ‘requires improvement’ rating, citing a failure to sign documents to confirm its nurses were authorised to administer medicine.

Doctors responsible for the practice are Dr Cerian Choi and Dr Barbara Frosh.

Chief inspector of general practice Professor Steve Field said: “After reporting on more than 6,000 inspections we have found that most care is good.

“What’s enormously encouraging is that our inspections are driving improvement – 90 per cent of practices that we have re-inspected have improved since last October.

“However, we still see evidence of too much poor care. Since we began inspecting GP practices in October 2014 we have found over 200 practices to be inadequate.

“I am glad to say that we have increasingly found that most practices that are placed in special measures use the support that is on offer to meet those standards.”

Across the UK, 72 practices in total have no successfully exited special measures.

Full reports on all 86 inspections are available at: http://www.cqc.org.uk