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The surgery is only closed on the statuary bank holidays (Good Friday and Easter Monday) - we are otherwise open as normal. If you need a doctor when we are closed ring 111 and your call we be answered by the 111 team. Our opening hours over the Easter Weekend are: Thursday 28th March - open as normal. Surgery closes at 6.30 pm Good Friday - 29th March - Closed Easter Saturday - 30th March - Pre bookable surgery from 8 am to 11 am Easter Sunday - 31st March - Closed Easter Monday - 1st April - Closed Tuesday - 2nd April - Surgery opens as normal at 8.00 am Local pharmacies can give you some advice and help. They are all open on Easter Saturday as normal and some of them are open over the bank holiday as well: LLoyds, 6-8 High Street, Normanton, 893915 - Open on Good Friday and Easter Monday, 10 am to 4 pm Exel Chemist, 56 High Street, Normanton, 896777 - Open on Good Friday 9 am - 6pm, Easter Sunday 11 am - 4pm and Easter Monday 9 am to 6 pm. I wish you all a Happy Eas

111 is an NHS service that provides urgent medical help for non life threatening situations. Calls to 111 are free from both landlines and mobiles. It is available 24 hours a day and if you are anxious about ill health or uncertain about what to do then 111 staff can give you a full range of advice from self care at home, to arranging an out-of-hours consultation or sending for an ambulance. On dialling 111 a team of fully trained advisers and experienced nurses will assess your condition and direct you to the local service that can help you best, when you need it. Click here for a link to 111 website. In the past if you dialled the surgery telephone number it would automatically transfer you to our Out of Hours provider - the new service is not able to do this and unfortunately we now have an answering machine advising you to ring 111. Surgery is open for calls 8.00 am to 6.30 pm, Monday to Friday - if you require advice or assistance outside of these hours dial 111 - its

The practice has just signed up to allow Novus Health to run a clinic in the surgery to provide hearing aids and assessment of patients with age related hearing loss. The service is for people over 55 years of age with uncomplicated age related hearing loss who would like to try a hearing aid. The service is completely free and fully funded by the NHS. This service enables GPs to refer patients to an audiologist for assessment of age related hearing loss and provision of hearing aid(s) where appropriate. The service is being held at other locations across the Wakefield District. Below is a list of all the locations where the service is available: Ash Grove Medical Centre, Knottingley College Lane Surgery, Ackworth Elizabeth Court Surgery, Airedale Kings Medical Centre, Normanton (including evening appointments) Ossett Health Village, Wakefield Warrengate Medical Centre, Wakefield Click here for the link to more information on the Novus Health website. Novus Health is