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The surgery is closed on August Bank Holiday Monday 31st August, 2015. We are open for pre-booked appointments on Saturday 29th August, 8.00 am - 11.00 am, as usual but are closed on Monday 31st August. We reopen, as normal on Tuesday, 1st September at 8.00 am. We have our usual pre-booked evening appointments on Tuesday 1st September from 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm. If you need urgent GP assistance or advice over the weekend then dial 111. Have a good weekend and I am hoping it does not rain!

Phones seem to be working normally now. But said that on Tuesday! Keeping our fingers crossed !!!!

11.00 am The fault with the telephones has come back. When you ring us you may well get a constant engaged tone. I am told this is because we only have two incoming lines. BT are on with it but I apologise for any inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause. Will update again when fixed

Monday 24th August - 8.30 am Incoming phones not working this morning. When you dial you get a continuously engaged tone. This is because of a fault in the system. We have notified our telephone provider and they are working on it. In the meantime if you want an appointment this morning if you come to reception before 10.30 am this morning you will be seen! Update - 4.30 pm . Our telephone system provider came in this morning and checked that it was not a problem in the practice. At 11 am they had diagnosed a fault with BT lines. They swapped some cables about so that we could receive incoming calls but not make any outgoing calls. We have a 4 hour response service with BT and they have just been into the surgery. There is not a fault in the surgery the problem is in the exchange. They have switched some of the lines round so that we can both receive calls and make out going calls but we have much fewer lines than we normally have. Update Tuesday 25th August - 8.15 am . Still prob...

I have just updated our website. Click here for the new site. I have made a new splash picture and  updated a few of the pages. The main page I have updated has been the staff page. Click here for the updated 'Doctors and Staff' page which has all our new permanent doctors together with new pictures of practice doctors and nurses. Main complaint from staff is that everyone looks older - well the last pictures were taken in 2008 so what do you expect ... But if you do find any other errors then please let me know - click here to email me directly.

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.