New Patients

• The best way to register is online at 'Find A GP' [https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp/ ] and complete the registration forms.  Please then remember to email your address ID to the practice for verification (this information will NOT be kept on record and destroyed once verified).
• Alternatively, you will need to complete our registration forms below or you can pick these up from reception. Please avoid registering at the Practice between 08:00 and 10:00 if at all possible.  
• However you apply, we will need to verify your address ID, either electronically or in person. You will need to bring along one piece of photo ID (or birth certificate for a child) per person and one proof of address per family - this should preferably be government official documentation or a bank or credit card statement but a phone or utility bill will also suffice. 

  If you have a copy of previous prescribed medications it would be helpful to let us see this.

• If you are within our practice area, when you have completed this process, we will be able to register you as a permanent patient. You will be allocated to a named doctor.  We would encourage you to see this doctor whenever possible in the interests of continuity of care.
• If you live more than a mile from your nearest pharmacy we may be able to dispense medication to you from our Dispensary.
• If you need an urgent appointment you must bring your forms to the surgery at least 30 minutes prior to the appointment so everything can be checked and the registration process completed. If, in exceptional circumstances, no one is available to register you we will check the documentation and register you as a temporary resident until the formalities can be completed.

Practice Area

Please click here to download a map of our boundary

Medications can be requested online with your own Practice and sent to any pharmacy in England - therefore we will not register temporary patients who require their regular medications.

All GP Practices in the UK participate in some form of online triage. You are required to contact your own GP in the first instance to see if this is a problem that they can help with remotely. If you own GP recommends you seek a local GP practice, or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one, you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice.

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.

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 you permanent GP. After three months you will be required to register permanently with that practice.

Temporary registrations do not allow for onward referrals. Any complaint that is likely to require a referral into secondary care will need to be made from your permanent GP practice.

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:

Our health centre has suitable access for disabled patients.

All the patient areas including the waiting room, the consulting rooms and the toilets, have wheelchair access.

A hearing loop is in place at the front reception desk.

If you require one, there is a wheelchair available at reception.

There are designated disabled parking spaces in the car park.