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Please note as of 11th October we are unable to provide travel advice appointments with our nursing team due to staff shortage.

This time of year is very busy with flu vaccination programme as well as the year round demand on our nursing team. Due to staff shortages it was agreed at a practice meeting on 10th October that we will stop offering this service for the month of OCtober and will review ready for November.

Alternatives are available at the Travel Clinics in the area - but there will be a charge.

Sorry for the inconvenience but we need to make sure we can look after our patients through the winter.

New Patient Registration

Please bring along your medical card if you have one. You will be asked to complete our New Patient forms.

New practice area as of 3rd August 2016

On registering with us you will need to provide current proof (within the last 2 months) of your address*.

Click here to check our practice area

Accepted documents are: -

Mortgage/Bank Statement
Rental agreement
Utility bill
DWP documents

Any patient aged 16 or over is entitled to a general health check with a nurse when they register. Please ask the receptionist for an appointment.

*if you do not have the documents accepted please speak with reception.

Disabled Access

Disabled patients are always welcome at our surgery.

Change of Address, Name & Telephone Number

Please let us know as soon as possible of any changes to your name, address and telephone number.

If you move out of our practice area it will be necessary to register with another doctor.

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.

pdf A Patient Guide to GP Services

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.

pdf Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form