New Patient Registration

If you will be living in the area for longer than 3 months then application for full patient registration may be made. This will allow us to provide the full range of NHS general medical services and request the transfer of your medical records from your last GP.

Our reception staff will be happy to advise you of the process which essentially involves the following steps:

• Please call the practice on 01355 575630 to request application forms 

• Return the completed forms in person to the practice along with any supporting documents of entitlement to NHS services. We also require photographic ID such as your NHS card, proof of residency in the UK, proof of reciprocal health care entitlement with other countries and passport or driving license.

The application will be reviewed by our GPs and a decision about accepting your registration will be made.

In certain circumstances we reserve the right refuse an application to register with our practice.

Non-English Speakers

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 up 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

If you will be in the area for more than 14 days but less than 3 months then you can register as a temporary patient with the Practice and be seen on an appointments only basis.

After three months you will have to permanently register with the practice.

Please contact our reception team on 01355 575630 for more information. 

Overseas Visitors 

Overseas visitors from areas that do not have a reciprocal health care agreement with the NHS in the UK can be seen but there will be a charge for this. Reception can advise of our current fees for appointments, house visits, prescriptions or tests. Receipts are available for insurance purposes.

The following link provides information about which EEA and non-EEA countires have reciprocal health care agreement with the NHS in the UK

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/OverseasVisitors