New Patient Registration

When registering, please bring your NHS medical card to the practice and those of any other persons registering with you.  If you do not have a medical card, you will be asked to complete a registration form for each person registering with the practice. 

In addition, all patients will be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire, allowing us to provide medical care in the interim period, while your medical records are transferred from you old practice to this one. The forms are also available to download below

Registration Form

All new patients over the age of 5 are required to see the doctor or nurse for a brief medical check and discussion about their health requirements.  We ask all new patients to ensure that they come for this medical.  It may be some time before your medical records are available to us and this allows us to ensure that any important information is recorded.

 If you move out of the practice area, you will need to register with a new practice as soon as you move.  We can provide information about how to find a new practice.

You and Your doctor

Patients are registered with the practice, not an individual GP. For administrative reasons your medical card will be issued in the name of one of the doctors; however, you can at any time express a preference for a particular doctor, for either your medical needs or on a case-by-case basis.  We will do our best to respect your choice in which doctor you wish to see – not all the doctors in the practice provide all services and specific doctors may not be immediately available.

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