Little Common

To register with the surgery in person.  Please bring your medical card, if you have one. You will be given a registration form to complete. We also require two forms of identification, one photo identification (for example passport or photo driving licence) and proof of address such as a utility bill or bank statement dated within the last three months.

Please note that Primary Care Support Service no longer routinely issue medical cards on registering with a practice.  Reception staff will be able to confirm your NHS number if required once we have received proof of identity.

Our reception staff will be pleased to book you a New Patient Check and answer any queries you may have.

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

Old Town

To register with the practice please come in person and bring your medical card, if you have one. If you do not have one you will be given a registration form to complete. We also require two forms of identification, one photo identification (for example passport or photo driving licence) and proof of address such as a utility bill or bank statement dated within the last three months.

Our reception staff will be pleased to book you a New Patient Check and answer any queries you may have.

Please note that Primary Care Support Service no longer routinely issue medical cards on registering with a practice. Reception staff will be able to confirm your NHS number if required once we have received proof of identity.

If at all possible we would appreciate it if you could register between 14:00 and 16:30 as this is a less busy time for the surgery therefore the staff will have more time to deal with your registration.  However, we do understand that this is not possible for everyone.

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

 ***We currently do not register patients online, but if you wish to pop in to the surgeries at either Little Common or Old Town, we will happily register you if you are eligible***