Patients will be accepted onto the practice list if they live within the boundary area as agreed with the local health authority.

Use the boundary map and postcode checker opposite to check if you reside within our boundary.

To register you will need to fill in a form which can be downloaded below:

We will ask you for proof of identity.

Once you have been accepted as a patient, your medical records will be transferred to the practice and you will be sent a new medical card. Your medical records may take several weeks to arrive at the practice.

We advise all our new patients to make a routine health check with our practice nurse within the first three months of joining our practice.

Languages

There is an Interpreting Service available either via Language Line (telephone interpreter), or via “Ujala Translation”, who will arrange for an interpreter to visit the Surgery (48 hours minimum notice is required). Please inform the reception team if you require an interpreter for your appointment and they will arrange this for you.

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.

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	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French