If you would like to register with us, please use the postcode checker to confirm you live within our practice boundary.

You can then register with us by completing both forms below:

• Registration Form
• New Patient Health Questionnaire

You can also visit the surgery where our team will guide you through the registration process.  

All new patients are offered a health check.  This is to make sure any necessary tests are uptodate and we have accurate information about your repeat medication.

Medical treatment is available from the date of registration.

• You will be treated with courtesy and respect at all times.
• Your consultations and treatment will be dealt with confidentially
• Your culture and religious beliefs will be honoured
• You have right of information to your health treatment

As part of the National GP contract, all patients now have a ‘named’ GP.

When you register with us your named GP will be Dr Bhima.

You probably think that you already have a named GP or a GP whom you would normally visit at the surgery. This WILL NOT affect your choice of doctor.
If you see a particular doctor at the surgery, you should still continue to see them.  You can also express a preference about who you want your named GP to be.

The ‘named’ GP will, however: –

• Take lead responsibility for ensuring that all appropriate services required under the contract with the practice are delivered to you.
• Where required, based on the professional judgement of the ‘named’ GP, work with relevant associated health and social care professionals to deliver a multidisciplinary care package that meets your needs.
• Ensure that your physical and psychological needs are recognised and responded to by the relevant clinicians in the practice.
• Ensure that you have access to a health check if requested, which is already a requirement of the GP contract regulations

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: