New Patients
Register as a New Patient
If you live within our practice area you are welcome to register with us, and our reception staff will be happy to guide you through the procedure. Medical treatment is available from the date of registration.
Are you in our catchment area?
Enter your postcode to check whether your address falls within the practice boundary. If it does, you are able to register with us.
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If you are unsure, or your postcode is close to the boundary, please contact reception.
Before you register
Get 28 days of medication
Obtain at least 28 days’ supply of your regular medication from your previous GP before transferring, so there is no interruption while your records move across.
Bring printed evidence
A prescription counterfoil or similar document from your previous GP. This helps us continue your medication safely and reduces delays.
We will confirm
Once we have processed your registration form we will let you know. If you are ineligible to register, we will tell you that too.
We do not accept out of area patients
We are aware that the NHS Find-A-GP service sometimes lists that we do; this is an error at their end that keeps recurring. If you are a current patient living outside the surgery catchment area, please read the important update.
Read the important updateOther situations
Can I register as a temporary patient?
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.
I am an asylum seeker or refugee – can I register?
We welcome all patients.
All asylum seekers and refugees, and those who are homeless, overseas visitors, whether lawfully in the UK or not, are eligible to register with a GP practice even if they have to pay for NHS services outside of the GP practice. If you need help understanding how to register with a GP, please read this leaflet produced by NHS England (PDF).
Information in other languages
These fact sheets explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover 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 give the information in clear language, tested with user groups.