When registering, please bring your NHS medical card to the practice and those of any other persons registering with you. If you do not have a medical card, you will be asked to complete a registration form for each person registering with the practice, and provide your NHS number

In addition, all patients will be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire, allowing us to provide medical care in the interim period, while your medical records are transferred from your old practice to this one.

Both forms are available online below.

Please bring a list of all medication/inhalers/etc when registering with the practice.

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

To register with us you must live within a 2 mile radius of the practice.

If you move out of the practice area, you will need to register with a new practice as soon as you move. We can provide information about how to find a new practice.

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.

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