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As August approaches our current GP trainees move on and we welcome new GP trainees to the practice. But this year we have lots of other staff changes as well: Dr Barber, who has been with the practice since 2002 is retiring at the end of July having been on long term sick leave. Dr Holborough left the practice at the start of July and has moved to work with his wife. Dr Samara left early in July on maternity leave and had a little girl yesterday - congratulations! Dr Safraz is leaving at the end of July to take up a partnership in Halifax. Dr Serena Alim who was a GP trainee with us until July 2014 has joined us from 1 st July. Dr Sulthana Ahmed and Dr Ronnie Banerjee who are both currently GP trainees with the practice have passed all their exams and will join the practice in August 2015. Dr Ali Damji who is a GP Commissioning Fellow leaves us at the end of July and joins a practice in Ossett. And finally we welcome four new GP trainees in August; Dr

Dr Barber has been on long term sick leave since January, 2015 and is retiring from the practice at the end of July. Dr Barber was a GP registrar in the practice in 2001 and joined the practice in 2002. Dr Barber was a gynaecologist before she joined the practice and we will miss her wealth of expertise in managing patients with gynaecological and contraception problems. To mark her leaving we are inviting staff and patients to meet Dr Barber on Wednesday 12 th August at 1pm for a cup of tea and cakes. The practice will miss Dr Barber and we wish her well in the future.

For the last few months we have been trying various things to improve access to GP appointments and from Monday 3 rd August we are introducing ‘Open Sessions’ on every weekday morning except Tuesday. If you ring for an appointment between 9.00 am and 10.30 am we will offer you a choice of appointments. If you feel you need to be seen on the day we will ask you if it is something the doctor can deal with over the ‘phone but if it is something you think you need to see a doctor in a consultation for you will be asked to come and sit and wait in the surgery from 9.00 am  and you will be seen in that ‘Open Surgery’ session. Routine appointments will be available to book up to six weeks in advance. If your condition requires immediate attention for example chest pain, breathlessness, etc then you will be offered an appointment with the ‘on-call’ doctor who may wish to speak to you in the first instance to assess how quickly you need to be seen. We hope by doing this we wi

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