New Patient Registration

 If you wish to register at the practice please call in to reception bringing photographic evidence, i.e. passport, driving licence. We will ask you to provide some information about your previous address and GP to enable us to send for your medical records.

Our Practice does not prescribe long term benzodiazepines or 'Z' drugs (such as temazepam, zopiclone etc).  Our aim is to review these medications and if appropriate to reduce gradually with a view to stop. We may refer patients to the local reduction team with an aim to working together to reducing/stopping them.  A consent form will be required to be signed and will be attached to your medical record.

Please note we also have a branch surgery situated at Mountain Road, Thornhill.  Patients are able to access appointments at both surgeries and will be expected to attend to the branch surgery for any emergency appointments if there are no appointments available at Albion Street.

We will also ask you to make an appointment with our healthcare assistant for a ‘New Patient Check’. This will give us an opportunity to ensure that we have important health information available to us whilst waiting for your records. An online username and password will be provided to you to allow you to order medication and view and book appointments online.

Due to an increase in the number of wasted appointments through patients failing to attend, our practice policy is to automatically remove any new patient from our practice list if they fail to attend their new patient medical

Please also bring any details of repeat prescriptions with you so that we can add this to our own computer records for continuity of care.

The premises have suitable access for disabled patients.

Due to an increase in the number of wasted appointments through patient’s failing to attend without informing the surgery, it has become necessary to implement the following policy:

If you repeatedly fail to attend appointments, you will be removed from this practice list and will need to find an alternative GP

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.

A Patient Guide to GP Services

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

If you wish to pre-register click on the link below to open the form. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. When you visit the surgery for the first time you will be asked to sign the form to confirm that the details are correct.

Pre-registration Form

When you register you will also be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. There is an online version of this file too, which you may fill out and send to us. When you come to the surgery you will be asked to sign this form to confirm that the details are correct.

Online Medical Questionnaire For New Patients

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

Alternatively you may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you on your first visit to the practice.

Registration Form

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.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form