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Just a quick reminder that if you are planning to go somewhere hot the practice provides a full travel advice service to our patients including travel vaccinations, travel health advice, advice about malaria prophylaxis and Yellow Fever vaccinations. Most travel vaccinations are free - the exceptions are generally if you are going to unusual places or doing something unusual e.g. back packing trips in the wilds or staying somewhere for longer than three months. The commonest vaccinations patients have to pay for are Yellow Fever, Hepatitis B and Rabies vaccinations. You will also have to pay for malaria tablets but the practice does not charge if you need a private prescription for malaria prophylaxis tablets. The practice is a registered Yellow Fever Vaccination centre. We also provide Yellow Fever Vaccinations and Travel Advice to patients who are not registered with the practice. Our travel advice service is run by our nursing team and they would like you to fill in a Pre Travel

Wakefield CCG has announced the closure of the GP Practice at King Street, Wakefield - click here for the press release. It is easy for  Kings Medical Practice and King Street Health Centre to be confused for the same GP practice - they are not the same and Kings Medical Practice is not closing! The GP Practice at King Street has a time limited contract and it will come to an end in March 2017. At the King Street site there are two services, the GP practice with a registered list and the walk-in-service. The changes will not affect the walk-in-service, which operates under a separate contract and will continue at the present time. But just to be clear Kings Medical Practice is not closing!