Join the Practice

Our catchment area extends northwards to Orrisdale, southwards to Dalby and eastwards to Crosby Crossroads and Foxdale. If you move outside our practice area you will have to register with another practice.

Registering with the surgery

Patients who wish to register should complete the necessary form from the reception desk. Identification with name and date of birth is required.

All new patients registering or re-registering with the practice are asked to attend the practice nurse for a new patient health check. This enables us to get some idea of your past and current health, which is always useful to us as we often have to wait several weeks for your notes from your previous doctor to reach us.

You will have a registered Doctor in the system but you can see any Doctor in the Practice. Emergency appointments or home visits might not, however, be with your registered or usual doctor.

Please advise us of any change of name, address or telephone number so that our records can be kept up to date.

To register with the surgery:

• download a registration form and once complete return it to the surgery
• visit reception and collect a paper registration form

Information Leaflet

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.

From 1st April 2015, practices are required to allocate all patients (including children) with a named accountable GP.

The named GP is responsible for the coordination and delivery of all appropriate services, where required based on clinical judgement, to each of their patients.

• Patients do not need to see their named GP when they book an appointment with the practice.
• Patients are entitled to choose to see any GP or nurse in the practice.

As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else. We call this having proxy access. We can set this up for you if you are both registered with us.

To requests proxy access:

• collect a proxy access form from reception

Less time in waiting rooms - less time on hold - Online Access, where you can book and cancel appointments and much more.

• Book an appointment
• Manage repeat medication
• View your medical record

With Patient Access, it’s quick and it’s easy.

All you need to do is complete the Online Access Registration Form and bring it in to the Surgery with some photo ID. You will be given a print off with your ID details and how to register online for the service. Application Forms will not be considered for patients who are under the age of 16. For further details please read the Patient Access to Online Services Registration Form.