New Patient Registration

To apply to become registered with our practice, you should bring your medical card to reception (if your card is not available, our receptionist will advise).

You will then be asked fill out a short new patient questionnaire, this will allow staff to have a ensure that we have the correct details for you. Once this has been filled out you will be asked to make an appointment for a health check within one month of registering. This health check gives us the opportunity to meet you and to learn of your past medical history as your medical records may take a few weeks to reach us from your previous practice.

Change of Personal Details

If you change your address, home telephone number, mobile telephone number etc. please notify reception staff as soon as possible so that our records are kept up to date.

You can do this by calling the surgery on 028 8556 8212 or by leaving the details with our receptionist.

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

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