PLEASAE BE ADVISED THAT FROM IMMEDIATE AFFECT ALL PATIENTS WISHING TO REGISTER WITH THE PRACTICE MUST PROVIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC INDENTIFICATION

New Patient Registration

If you live within our practice catchment area (6 miles), 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 it would help if you could provide proof by way of a recent utility bill. It is essential to provide photographic ID at time of registration

You will need to complete a registration form and a health questionnaire which will provide useful information whilst we wait for your medical records to arrive from your previous doctor. Receptionists can email you all relevant forms for completion if this is easier than having to call to the surgery.

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

Northgate Family Practice DO NOT ISSUE THE FOLLOWING MEDICINES AS REPEAT MEDICATION:

• Pregabalin
• DHC (Dihydrocodeine)
• Controlled drugs ( Tramadol, Morphine products)
• Sleeping Tablets
• Diazepam (Valium)
• High dose Codeine (Co-codamol, Co-Dydramol)

IF YOU WILL REQUIRE AN INTERPRETER PLEASE INFORM THE RECEPTION STAFF.

DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE PROTOCOL FOR NEW REGISTRATION HAS CHANGED SLIGHTLY.  PLEASE CONTACT RECEPTION ON 02890 743184 FOR UPDATED ADVISE.

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.

When a patient requires an interpreter please inform receptionist at time of  registering with your GP.  This procedure can take a few days to arrange.

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. 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