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If you have a sudden eye problem such as a sticky eye, something in your eye or you think you may have an infected stye then 24 opticians across Wakefield are offering to see you and assess your eye as part of the Wakefield PEARS scheme - Primary Eyecare Assessment Referral Service. The opticians in the scheme can assess and treat your for a sudden eye problem. If the optician finds your eye problem is more complicated and needs a referral to hospital then the optician is able to do this as well. It means that if you have an acute eye problem, instead of coming to see a GP at the practice you can go and see your optician. Both of the Normanton opticians are participating in the scheme and if you click here you can find a list of participating opticians across the Wakefield District.

On 1st April, NHS Wakefield CCG will become the local NHS organisation that commissions (ie buys) services for patients across the Wakefield district. I am a board member of NHS Wakefield CCG and the board has decided to hold our first public board meeting in the meetings room at King's Medical Practice on Tuesday 19 February between 1.00 pm and 4.00 pm. We decided to hold it in Normanton because the CCG is different from the NHS organisation that commissioned NHS services before, the CCG is very clearly lead by GPs, Normanton is at the centre of the district that we serve and besides we are expecting lots of people to attend and the headquarters of the CCG does not have a room that is big enough! The papers for the board meeting are available to read from the CCG website - click here for the papers and board members will be available from 12.30 pm for informal discussions. Questions relating to the agenda may be submitted in advance to ckwcommunications@wdpct.nhs.uk So, if

We are a GP Training practice and regularly have doctors attached to us who are training to become GP's. In the practice we now have four approved GP Trainers - Dr Brown, Dr Walsh, Dr Harding and Dr Deeley. Trainees are attached to the practice for either six or twelve months and change around at the start of August and February. Change over day this time is Wednesday, 6th February. We are saying goodbye to Dr Matharu (Kings Medical Practice was her second post on a three year training programme and she has gone to do Psychiatry in Wakefield) and Dr Chafer (she has now finished her training and is looking for a job!). The doctors who are replacing them are Dr Kate Heels and Dr Sarah Graham. Dr Katie McGowan is still on maternity leave and will be back for two weeks in March to complete her training. Dr Emma Still and Dr Amina Vandu-Chiklo will be with us till the end of July, and Dr Mou Sinha and Dr Mohammed Shaikh are now working part-time and I have no idea when their t