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In August I blogged about a proposed cut to GP funding in Wakefield with thirty four surgeries in Wakefield and Pontefract having the threat of £3.8 million slashed from their budgets. Our Local Medical Committee (our union)  launched a petition asking NHS England to reconsider this. At the Conservative Party Annual Conference in September it was announced that all of the money that was at risk would return to general practice funding in Wakefield and that none of it would be used for other purposes. Since then the state of general practice has come to the fore and now politicians seem to have grasped that undermining general practice is not very sensible. Our Local Medical Committee has been in negotiation with NHS England and this week has announced that the reduction in funding we were expecting in April will be put off until October and that it is likely that practice funding will be broadly similar. From October there is still a threat to reduce practice funding but it is ce

From the 1st January NHS regulations have changed so that the practice can now register patients who live outside of our practice area without the obligation to provide home visits. The practice treats patients who live in Normanton, Altofts, Whitwood, Ackton, Old Snydale, Warmfield, Kirkthorpe and Health. For a map of our practice area click here . In order to register as an out of area patient you need to apply to the practice. Out of area registration is voluntary for the practice and we will only register to you it we think it is clinically appropriate. It would be clinically inappropriate to allow you to register if there was a high likelihood of you requiring home visits and you would be better registering with a new practice and developing a new relationship with another practice. But for most patients we are happy for you to still to register with us. If you move out of our practice area and would still like to be registered then let us know and we will make the necessary