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The practice is closed on Wednesday 28th April from 12 midday for staff training. If you need medical attention on Wednesday after 12 just ring our normal number (0844 815 1340) and your call will initially be answered by NHS Direct who will be able to arrange for you to see a doctor if necessary. But what are we up to on Wednesday afternoon? The practice closes every Wednesday between 1.00 and 3.00 pm for staff training when we do a variety of things; short educational meetings, audit, doctors business meetings etc etc. But once a month we are able to close for the whole afternoon when we spend the afternoon either in the practice or at a District wide event looking at a topic in more detail. This Wednesdays training is around Significant Events. Staff in the practice are encouraged to notice and report any significant events. These we define as any actual or possible harm to patients that may have been avoided. In this session we are going to look at significant events that have been

Yes its true, Ed Balls, the last Normanton MP, packed my shopping at Sainsburys on Saturday. Ed was packing shopping to raise money for Levi's Star a Wakefield charity that is raising money for children with brain tumours in memory of Levi Ringer who died from a brain tumour. You can see a picture of Ed packing his shopping on his twitter page. Ed said how impressed he was with our new surgery premises and how it has made the top of the High Street much smarter. I told Ed how helpful some of my patients had found advice and support from his consistituency office and I said how we were going on holiday on Monday but unlikely to fly due to the Icelandic ash cloud. But what I should have said was that I would like to cherry pick from all of the parties manifestos: 1) All the parties have expressed support for continued financial support for the NHS but I would trust Labour the most to deliver on this promise. I am particularly impressed by some of the NHS targets; two week wait for

We are just in the process of completing the sale of the Princess Street Surgery to the Fire Service. Behind our old surgery building is a fire station on The Grove. This fire station is currently a part time station. It is crewed by retained fire officers who come to the station when they receive a call. The Fire Service has bought our old building and intends to build a new, permanently staffed fire station on this site. The Fire Service has been successful in obtaining planning permission for this new station. Click here for full details of the planning application – if you click on documents you can see a site plan and what the Fire Service plans to do. Essentially they are going to build a new fire engine garage where our surgery is. Access to the garage will be from Princess Street and the fire engine will exit via The Grove. On either side of the garage will be offices and accommodation for the full time fire officers. We are very pleased that Normanton will now have a fire sta

The practice is pleased to welcome a new GP trainee - Capt Dr Tom Clack. Tom trained at Leeds University, has done some post qualification posts at Pinderfields and has a house in Pontefract. He is a doctor in the Army Medical Service and is training to be a GP. He has a lot of experience as a GP trainee - he has worked as a trainee in a training practice in Guiborough, but has also done some other interesting stuff. As part of his military duties he has done a tour of Iraq where he was a trainee at Basra Palace. He knows all about the practice as when he as a student he shared a house with Dr Campbell Murdoch - we have lots of patients (and staff) who remember Campbell with some fondness! He is with us for 10 months to complete his training - he has come to us as a sort of finishing school - nice thought that!