Practice News

New Patient Registration

To register with the practice, please click and print off the registration form GMS1, and patient questionnaire complete it and bring it to the practice together with 2 forms of identification.

GMS1

New patient registration forms

Child Health Questionnaire Under 16 years of age

If you are not sure that you live within the practice boundaries, please telephone the surgery.

Identification

To register yourself as a patient with this Practice we may ask you to provide us with proof of identity (ID) if at all possible. 

Whenever possible, photographic ID should be provided:

Passport, Drivers Licence Company ID card (or similar)

If you do not have one of the above we will accept other forms of identity – 2 of the following:

• NHS Medical Card
• Utility Bills or Account Statements – as proof of address
• Council Tax Bills – as proof of address

Children

For children whose parents are registered within the Practice, we will not need proof of identity.

Nursing Homes

Nursing homes will not be required to show new patient ID.

Overseas Nationals or Asylum Seekers

• Passport/Visa
• Home Office Documentation OR UK Border Agency Papers
• National Insurance Card
• Letter from Benefits Agency OR Benefit Book OR Signing On card
• Paid Utility Bills – as proof of address

When you come to the surgery, please ask for copy of our patient information leaflet. 

Additionally, we would be grateful if you could complete a patient questionnaire Adult Questionnaire and/or a Child Questionnaire for each member of the family, these are also available from reception. This would provide useful for the doctors or nurses as your records may take some time to be transferred from your previous practice.

If you are on regular repeat medications, it may be useful to make an appointment with a GP to have them sorted onto our system.

If you move house please let us know your new address. You may need to register with another practice if your new address is outside our practice area.

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