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Non-urgent advice: Register with our practice
To register with the surgery:
- fill out an online registration form
- download and print a paper form
- visit reception and collect a paper registration form
When you register, it’s helpful to have your NHS number. You can use the NHS website to find your NHS number. However, you do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.
Practice Boundary
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.
Named accountable GP
As of April 2015 all NHS Practices must assign and notify patients of their Named GP.
If you would like to know your Named GP please contact the surgery within working hours and our reception staff will be happy to inform you.
Accessing someone else's information
As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else. We call this having proxy access. We can set this up for you if you are both registered with us.
To requests proxy access:
- fill in our admin request form
- collect a proxy access form from reception from 10am to 6.30pm
Linked profiles in your NHS account
Once proxy access is set up, you can access the other person’s profile in your NHS account, using the NHS App or website.
The NHS website has information about using linked profiles to access services for someone else.
Temporary Patients
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.
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:
Page created: 15 July 2022