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RightSteps Wakefield is a service that aims to provide fast acting psychological treatments, sometimes called talking therapies, for people with common mental health problems such as low mood, anxiety and stress. They have a variety of ways of helping people from group work to individual cognitive behavioural therapy and from employment support to guided self help. All the treatments that RightSteps Wakefield offer are recommended by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence and are provided by appropriately trained practitioners. To find out more details about RightSteps Wakefield click here. People who would like to benefit from talking therapies can be referred by their GP or other members of the practice team, but you can also self refer. If you think you would benefit from talking therapies you can telephone or pop down to their office in Wakefield between 11 am and 7 pm, Monday to Friday. Their telephone number is 01924 234 860 and their office is on the 3rd floor of Gro

On Friday, I went to the Royal College of General Practitioners new London headquarters to be presented with the Fellowship of the College. A Fellowship is how the College recognises the achievements of its members and is a great accolade. I felt very proud to be honoured in such a way. At the College I donned the Fellows gown and was presented with a certificate by the President. Interestingly, there were three other David Browns, but my citation was all about my work as a GP Trainer, GP Training Programme Director and sitting on the board of Health Education Yorkshire and Humber and NHS Wakefield CCG. However, my achievement is not mine alone and I would not be able to do what I do with out the support of my wife, Sue and colleagues at Kings Medical Practice, Normanton. Sue has always supported me (although she claims to be long suffering). Sue is the rock from which all my achievements in my work have sprung. In the practice we have always supported doctors doing other clin

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this weekend we had almost a complete IT system failure. The practice is completely paperless and all clinical work and administration tasks are done via our clinical computer system. The practice no longer has a server on site, instead our system uses a remote server and everything is connected to this remote server via a private NHS net broadband connection. On Tuesday we noticed that the computer system was running slowly. It was taking one to two minutes to load a patient record compared to the ten seconds it takes normally. Not only was it taking the computer ages to load records it also took ages to print prescriptions, look at letters and indeed do anything at all on patients computerised clinical record. Our IT help desk was called and eventually at 3.30 pm they identified that there was a fault with our NHS net broadband connection. There are two connections, a primary connection at speeds up to 8 Mbps and a back-up one that works at 1 Mbps. The