New Patient Registration

To register please bring your medical card to the reception desk. If you do not have your medical card let the receptionist know and she can give you the appropriate registration forms.

When you are registered with a GP your medical records will be transferred from your previous GP (it may take several weeks).

Where patients are requesting to join the Practice we do not discriminate on the ground of:

Race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.

Change of Personal Details

It is important that we have your correct details at all times. If you change your name, address or telephone number please let us know.

If you leave the area you will need to register with a doctor in the area you are moving to. You can do this by taking your medical card to the new doctor of your choice.

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.