New Patient Registration

New patients wishing to register with the practice must fulfill the following criteria:

• Live within the Practice Boundaries.
• Have entitlement to NHS care.

If you meet this criteria and wish to register with the practice you will need to visit the reception in person to collect registration forms. A registration medical with a Nurse will then be arranged for you. It is essential that you attend for this appointment and should you fail to do so without prior notification we will not be able to offer you any further appointments.

You should bring your completed forms as well as 2 forms of ID (one to be photographic) with you to your registration appointment.

The practice reserves the right to refuse an application to join our practice list.

Once you have registered with the practice your medical records will be requested from your previous GP. Please note that it can take several months for us to receive your old medical records. You will also receive a medical card from the Business Services Organisation showing that you are registered with one of the doctors in the practice.

You may see any doctor within the practice not just the doctor you are officially registered with.

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them.  You can download the guide below.

A Patient Guide to GP Services

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

English	Urdu
Albanian	Hindi
Arabic	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Spanish
Russian	French
Turkish	Punjabi
Gujerati	Somali
Croatian	Bengali
Farsi

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form