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Every six months the NHS carries out a survey of patients' experience of the access and quality of care they receive from their local GPs. The results are now out and can be found if you click here . This time NHS England West Yorkshire Area Team has selected five questions for analysis: Generally how easy is it go through to someone at your GP surgery on the phone? We scored 96.9% with the local average being 73.9% How convenient was the appointment time you were able to get? We scored 96.5% with the local average being 91.8% Overall, how would you describe your experience of making an appointment? We scored 88.3% with the local area being 74.8% How satisfied are you with the hours that your GP surgery is open? We scored 92.9% with the local average being 69.5% Overall how would you describe you experience of your GP surgery? We scored 92.8% with the local average being 85.4% These results are pretty good with the practice scoring significantly above the local average f

The practice is an approved GP training practice and we train doctors to become GP's. They spend either six or twelve months with us and they swap over in August and February of each year. This week we have said goodbye to Dr Amina Vandu-Chikolo, she has now successfully completed her training and is working as a locum in Leeds, Dr Kate Heels who has gone to A&E at Pinderfields and Dr Sarah Graham who has gone to Psychiatry at Fieldhead Hospital. Dr Emma Still finished her training at the end of July but is staying on with us to do Dr Rebecca Hardings maternity locum. We still have Dr Mou Sinha and Dr Mohammed Shaikh with us. They are both working part-time and I know they will eventually finish but they have been with us for ages and I am not sure when they will complete their training! Joining us are Dr Danielle Kirkham, Dr Serena Alim and Dr Bing-Chiu Pang - who are in their third year of training and will be with us until July 2013 and Dr Thangiarubian Thurairajah (kno