Welcome

Mission Statement

Our aim is to promote and improve the health of our patients by providing a high level of care and services in our medical practice.

As a Primary Care Team working in the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) we aim to develop our services by evaluation, continued training and striving to improve our quality of care to all of our patients.

With patients' needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been designed to make it easy for you to gain instant access to the information you need. As well as specific practice details such as opening hours and how to register, you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations.

Get Well, Keep Well

Of course we’re not just here for when you are unwell. Our team of healthcare professionals and Care Navigators offer a number of clinics and services to promote good health and wellbeing whatever your medical condition.

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We hope you enjoy having a look around the site and familiarising yourself with some of the online features such as ordering a repeat prescription. Whatever your thoughts, be sure to let us know via our feedback function. Comments and suggestions are always a great way of helping us continue to enhance the way we look after you.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

How we collect, look after and use your data

Pathology Results for the GP Practice

The laboratory at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT), which processes and reports on all the blood tests taken across Leeds, had a system upgrade in early December 2024.

Due to problems with this upgrade:

• Some blood test results have been delayed in being sent back to the Practice.
• Some blood test results were sent to us in an incorrect format, so will take us longer to review back in the Practice.
• Some blood samples have been lost or have been discarded due to delays in processing which means they will have to be repeated.
• There may be staggered delays within a set of tests, meaning reports may not be representative. For example, a result may be marked as ‘normal’, and this be communicated to the patient, but further test elements are yet to arrive (and may be ‘abnormal’).

This has been a problem across Leeds with every GP Practice having to do a lot of extra work, checking and so on. At Dr. S.Laybourn and Partners, we are facing a significant extra workload caused by this issue which is entirely outside our control. Please be assured that we are working through the extra work steadily and we will be in touch with patients as and when necessary.

Our preferred way for patients to know that their test results are back / and are normal, is by checking on the NHS App or on our Practice website with Online services. You can see all your test results and your recent medical notes in the NHS App. It is downloadable from app stores.

If you had a blood test taken since the 3^rd of December 2024 and there are no results showing on the NHS App, please let us know via the Patchs contact box on the Practice website at www.leedsgps.com . If you are not able to access the NHS App or Online Services, then please visit the surgery with a form of photo ID and register.

West Yorkshire ICB, Leeds Local Medical Committee (which represents GPs) and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust are working together to resolve the issues. However, General Practices in Leeds feel this system upgrade has been poorly handled, resulting in a lot of extra work for Practices at our busiest time of year. We will continue to post updates as we get them.

We understand that this may cause frustration or concern, and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.  This is beyond the Practice’s control and if you have been affected and wish to escalate your concerns, please convey your feelings to LTHT by contacting the patient Advice liaison Service here or contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) by e-mail at patientexperience.leedsth@nhs.net   Tel: 0113 2066261 or post: Patient Experience Department Trust Headquarters, St James’s Hospital, Leeds, LS9 7TF.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Dr. S. Laybourn and Partners.