Catchment Area
If you would like to join our list as a patient then call in to the Health Centre an speak to reception.
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
Although patients are allocated a named accountable GP, the doctors do not operate personal lists, so any patient can choose to see any of our GPs.
Other ways to get your NHS number
If you cannot get your NHS number online you can:
- find it on any letter from the NHS like a prescription or appointment letter
- call your GP surgery and ask them for your number
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:
Out of Area Patients
Please note, that if you are a patient who is on our practice list and live out of our practice area, our policy has changed (2022).
We know that familiarity with the same practice is important to many people, however, we have had to make the difficult decision that, where a patient who lives out of our patient area, moves house, to another location out of our practice area, the patient will be asked to register at a surgery, in whose catchment they live.
This does not affect those out of area patients who remain at the address where they have been registered before.
For those patients affected by this, to find a practice local to you, please use the NHS website: NHS Find a GP
We are also no-longer able to retain patients on our list, who now move out of the practice area.
Should the situation change, and allow us to offer this service again, we will update this information.
Temporary Patient Registrations
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.
New Patient Registration
We prefer patients to come to the surgery, to register, so that we can make sure that your questions are answered.
If you prefer, you can use the form below, to request to register. Our reception team will then get in touch with you:
