New Patient Registration

If you are going to be resident in our area for three months or more, you may register with the Practice. To register you will need to come into the Practice and bring with you identification. If we cannot register you, the reason will be given to you.

Your registration will be with the Practice. You are however free to indicate a preference for the doctor whom you would normally like to consult and we will record such a preference. You may also at any time request to receive certain services from e.g. a male or female doctor. Please understand however that we may not be able to accommodate your requests due to e.g. part-time working, clinical rotas, workloads, absence, professional competencies, or where the preferred practitioner does not provide the service.

New Patient Assessments

All newly registered patients (over the age of 5 years) will be given a New Patient Health Questionnaire to complete at home, and will be invited to make an appointment for a New Patient Assessment. When you attend for your assessment, a clinician will review your questionnaire with you. This lets us get to know you and your medical needs.

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.