New Patient Registration

If you live in the practice catchment area you are eligible to join our list. When you attend to register you need to bring photographic identification with you. You will be asked to complete a registration form and health questionnaire for each person and will be offered a new patient appointment with the practice nurse or healthcare assistant. At your new patient appointment the practice nurse or health care assistant will review your health questionnaire and perform some simple health checks. Patients on regular medication will also need to see the doctor.

Patients register with the practice and not with a named doctor. You may choose to receive services from the doctor of your choice unless he or she does not routinely perform the service in question within the practice.

Medical treatment is available from the date of registration. Please contact reception for further information.

You may print off a registration form, fill it out and hand it in to the surgery before making an appointment.

Registration Form

Non-English Speakers

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.