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We are holding 'flu vaccination clinics on the following three Saturdays - October 1st. October 8th and October 29th. We recommend 'flu vaccinations to anyone who would be at more risk of the serious complications of 'flu than the general population. This means people over 65, those with a chronic lung or chest condition like asthma or COPD, people who have diabetes and people with heart disease. In addition and annual nasal spray flu vaccine will be available for children aged two, three and four years old plus children in school years one and two. It is being offered to those children with a date of birth on or after September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2015. If you would like your child to get the nasal spray flu vaccine then make an appointment for one of our Saturday clinics. If you  click here  you can follow a link to the page on our website where you can download our 'flu information leaflet and consent form. The 'flu vaccination clinics are being held betwee...

The surgery is closed on August Bank Holiday Monday 29th August, 2016.  We reopen, as normal on Tuesday, 30th August at 8.00 am. 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!

The NHS Constitution says that patients are entitled to be seen and start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to hospital. Local hospitals have a target set by NHS England that 92% of patients referred with be seen within 18 weeks. However a common complaint of patients is that when we refer patients to our local hospital it takes longer than that for them to get seen. In my role on the CCG Board I am aware the Pinderfields is failing to meet its 18 weeks target. If you click here you can read about their performance in the public minutes of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust board. The last minutes publicly available are from July and they give details of their performance in April, 2016 which I understand has not improved a lot since. Below is a list of the performance of each speciality: From the table you can see that the specialities that are performing particularly badly are orthopaedics, ENT, plastic surgery and neurology. This is the reason that patients ...

As August approaches our current GP trainees move on and we welcome new GP trainees to the practice.  We are saying goodbye to: Dr Zak Tai - he is doing some locum sessions in Dewsbury Dr Siobhan Waldron - she has gone back into hospital to do obstetrics and gynaecology to complete the hospital posts on her GP training scheme. We are expecting Dr Susanne Samara to return from maternity leave and complete 12 days training in early August and expecting Dr Sarah Timperly back from maternity leave in October or November to finish her training. And finally we welcome four new GP trainees in August; Dr Wendy Wong, Dr Matthew Roday, Dr Khawja Naser and Dr Kiran Ali. We wish all the doctors who have left the practice the very best for the future and give a very warm welcome to our new GP trainees.

NHS England has been trying to use the information contained in patients medical records to improve the delivery of healthcare and for medical research in a programme called Care.data. But it has faced problems with the security of the data, what it is going to be used for and how patients can consent to how that data is used. On 6th July a report was published by the Care Quality Commission looking into data security across the NHS. The report was critical of about how NHS England has approached getting consent to access information contained in patients medical records and following publication of this report NHS England has announced that the Care.data programme has been closed. As part of our new patients registration process we have always asked patients if they are happy to share their medical information with the Care.data programme but since the programme has now come to an end we can removed that from our sharing consent form and perhaps get it onto one side of A4 now!

QRISK is the computer programme that the practice uses to assess peoples risk of having a heart attack or stroke. It is based on your cholesterol level and takes into account your blood pressure, whether you smoke or not, gender and age. Our Clinical Computer software supplier had found an error in the software and switched it off. The error has now been corrected and QRISK is back and working. The error did highlight some patients who have been given incorrect advice based on the QRISK score that was worked out for them. We are in the process of contacting patients who have been given incorrect advice. We have run reports and identified 47 patients whose QRISK score was reported as normal who should have been given advice about starting statins to lower their cholesterol. We have identified 89 patients who should be on statins regardless of what their QRISK score was because of conditions in their medical history. There were 18 patients whose QRISK score was above the threshold fo...

The practice is committed to protecting the privacy and dignity of patients at all times. Some examinations and treatments, particularly those that involve intimate examinations (by that we mean examination of breasts, genitalia or rectum) can make patients feel vulnerable and distressed. In such circumstances practice staff will offer you a chaperone. A chaperone is a member of staff who has been trained specially for this role. They are usually one or our nurses or healthcare support workers but other practice staff have also been trained. The chaperones role is to support you during the examination and to ensure that is carried out in a sensitive and respectful way that maintains and protects your privacy and dignity. You will be offered a chaperone for any intimate examination but you can also request a chaperone for any consultation. You also have the right to refuse the offer of a chaperone. We have produced a leaflet about how we use chaperones in the surgery. Currently ...