New Patient Registration

If you live within our practice area you are welcome to register with us and our reception staff will be happy to guide you through the procedure. Eligibility can be quickly confirmed from your address so please provide proof by way of a recent utility bill. We also require either a passport or birth certificate.

Proof of Identity requirements

You will need to complete a registration form (GMS1) and a health questionnaire which will provide useful information whilst we wait for your medical records to arrive from your previous doctor.

Adult Health Questionnaire     Adult Health Questionnaire - Large Print Format

Under 16 Health Questionnaire

REPEAT MEDICATIONS

All new patients on repeat medications must have an appointment with a GP prior to being issued with any repeat medications, this appointment can be made at time of registering, please ensure that you have sufficient medication from your previous surgery prior to moving to us as we unable to issue repeat prescriptions for new patients until after the GP appointment.

Medical treatment is available from the date of registration. Please contact reception for further information. Further information can be found about Surgery processes and procedures in our New Patient Information Pack and Practice Leaflet

If you wish to register with us please click on the tab marked How to Register above

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

Our process for registering new patients:

We would firstly ask you to call the surgery or pop in and confirm that you are living within our catchment area.

We can then provide you with a New Patient Information Pack, Practice Leaflet and GMS1 Form or this can all be printed from the links below. 

We ask that when you come to register that you have all the correct documents and ensure that the Adult Health Questionnaire and GMS1 Form have been fully completed. We are unable to register you until you provide all the necessary documents.

Children do not need to be present for the registration as all documents will be completed by a parent/guardian on their behalf, however, you will need to bring their completed Under 16 Health Questionnaire form and GMS1 Form with you and their Red Book.

Adults must come in and register themselves.

We do not register any children at the practice without a parent/guardian being registered here.

Please use these check lists to ensure that you have all the documents we require to be able to register you, therefore preventing any delays. Adult Check List / Child Check List.

All new patients on repeat medications must have an appointment with a GP prior to being issued with any repeat medications, this appointment can be made at time of registering, please ensure that you have sufficient medication from your previous surgery prior to moving to us as we unable to issue repeat prescriptions for new patients until after the GP appointment. 

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

Immediate Necessary patient

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 immediate necessary treatment from the local GP practice. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

Temporary 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.

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.

If you register as a Temporary patient and wish to see a doctor you will be offered the next available routine appointment.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form