New Patients

The forms involve your past and present medical history, previous GP details and most importantly your NHS number (which can be obtained from your previous GP if not known by yourself). 

Following acceptance, new patients aged 5 years and over will be given an appointment for a New Patient Health Check with a GP or Practice Nurse if clinically appropriate. If you have your NHS medical card, bring it with you. For any child under the age of 5 years old we will ask you to provide a copy of their immunisations which can be found in their Red Book.

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.

Open the leaflets in one of the following languages:

 

English	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French

There is wheelchair access at the main entrance. A wheelchair is also available for patient use; this can be found in the ground floor reception area.There are disabled parking spaces outside the main entrance which has automatic doors providing access to the building.

Disabled toilet facilities are situated on the ground and first floors.

We also have a hearing loop in the practice.