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We are delighted to report that Sister Helen Wright has recently successfully passed a Non Medical Prescribing Course at Leeds Metropolitan University. The course was over 12 months and gives Helen 40 credits towards a masters degree. Passing the course allows Helen to independently prescribe in areas that she is competent to do so. Helens competency areas are family planning, ear care, wounds and dressings, travel advice and respiratory conditions. Helen did not merely pass though, she passed really, really well. She got 100% in her pharmacology exam and 100% in the drug calculation exam. The practice team sends Helen our warmest congratulations. So .... if you are about to go on holiday, need malaria pills, have a painful ear, want a repeat prescription for the contraceptive pill, a check up for your asthma and a blister dressing on your heel - then Sister Helen Wright can deal with it all!

I am delighted to report that last weekend Dr and Mrs Sarfraz had a baby girl. She weighed 7lb 14oz and mum and baby are doing well. They are going to call her Maryam which is an arabic form of Mary. Congratulations!

At the end of August last year I blogged about Stage 2 of the NHS Electronic Prescribing Service. With Stage 2 the practice will be able to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacies that you nominate to get your prescription from. It will save you from having to contact the practice for a repeat prescription and will save the practice loads of time in not having to print our and deal with every single repeat prescription request. My blog about Electronic Prescribing has received the most hits of any of my blogs. When I blogged I said that we would be implementing it by December, 2010 but now as I write this in the second half of the year we are no closer to an implementation date. The practice is keen to be an early adopter for this but our clinical software supplier has not satisfactorily completed tests on their Electronic Prescribing module and we are still waiting ... So, yet again it is watch this space ...!