Honestly this practice is a joke, I've been using it (or at least trying to) for several years now. If you want to see a doctor, good luck getting anything for at least 4 weeks. If you are OK with a nurse or nurse practitioner, then you might get an appointment within 3 weeks if you're lucky.
Reception staff are quite rude and inattentive, and seem to be more interested gossiping about whatever garbage they watched on TV last night or whatever.
IT systems are pathetic, but probably cost the NHS about £10billion.
When you go to the practice for a drop-in session, it is full of angry drug addicts and 'homeless' people, or people who can barely speak or understand English demanding their sickly rugrats are seen to immediately.
The doctors change frequently, so I guess they are not happy there either.
The main problem is that the eligibility criteria to register here is so wide (basically any Leeds postcode, so people living in Wetherby or Ilkley can use it!) that they don't have enough resources to cope. The NHS obviously pays them a fee 'per registered patient' and they are taking advantage of this. Convenient for those working in Leeds, yeah. But meanwhile, those of us who live in the city centre are stuck and can't even register anywhere else.
I would strongly recommend you swerve this practice and go private instead.
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