Our online registration form will collect your details, a brief outline of your medical history and record your preferences. This information may be added to your record and allows us to provide you with medical services.

If no pharmacy nomination is received you will be allocated to the pharmacy nearest to your address.

New arrangements introduced from January 2015 give people greater choice when choosing a GP practice. Patients may approach any GP practice, even if they live outside the practice area, to see if they will be accepted on to the patient list.

The new arrangements mean GP practices now have the option to register patients who live outside the practice area but without any obligation to provide home visits.

Out of area registration (with or without home visits) is voluntary for GP practices meaning patients may be refused because they live out of area.

If your application is considered, the GP practice will only register you without home visits if it is clinically appropriate and practical in your individual case.

When is it clinically appropriate and practical to register out of area patients without home visits?

When a patient approaches the GP practice to apply to register as an out of area patient and the practice wishes to consider their registration without an obligation to provide home visits, it will need to decide whether it is clinically appropriate and practical for the individual patient.

While it is for the practice to form this opinion based on the individual circumstances of the patient, practices will want to consider if there are clinical conditions or care needs which mean registration without the ability to do home visits would compromise clinical care, and the patient’s needs would be better met through registration with a practice near to where they live. (For example, the patient does not have any complex long-term conditions that mean they are receiving a package of home-based care or community-based support which would be difficult for the practice to coordinate remotely; or, the patient relies on frequent home visits from their current GP practice.)

In addition to establishing such information directly from patients, practices may agree with the patient to contact their current/previous practice for further information if they have any clinical concerns about registering them outside their home area. Other examples of concern would be concerns around child and adult safeguarding.

If the practice decides it is not clinically appropriate or practical for the patient to be registered away from home it will give its reasons for this. There is no right of appeal for the patient against the decision. The practice must be able to give reasons as to why registration was declined. Given the limitations of this type of registration, it is not discriminatory to advise a patient is unsuitable for registration on clinical grounds. The practice remains free to offer registration in a usual way, as to any other patient i.e. with duty to provide home visits etc. but is not obliged to do so.

If accepted, you will attend the practice and receive the full range of services provided as normal at the surgery (except home visits). If you have an urgent care need or require a home visit we will ask you to call NHS 111 and they will put you in touch with a local service (this may be a face to face appointment with a local healthcare professional or a home visit where necessary).

Once accepted if your health needs change we will review your registration to see if it would be more appropriate for you to be registered with a GP practice closer to your home.

This new arrangement only applies to GP practices and patients who live in England. For further information visit the NHS website (www.nhs.uk)

Register with us as an Out of Area Patient?

We will review your application in 7 working days.

If you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one urgently, you can receive emergency treatment for 14 days. After 14 days, you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

To discuss registering with us as a temporary resident, please call us on 0203 667 1850.

You can register as a temporary resident with a GP in England if you are in the area for longer than 24 hours but less than three months.

If you are resident in the UK but away from home and need to register for emergency treatment, please contact the surgery on 0203 667 1850.

Anybody in England , whether a resident or overseas visitor, may access primary care services at a GP Practice without charge. To facilitate the registration process we may request photo ID to confirm your details with the local Health Authority. This will also help to ensure the correct matching of your details to any existing NHS record, enabling previous medical records to transfer smoothly between practices.

We appreciate your assistance in this matter.

Types of acceptable photo ID are:

• Passport
• Driving Licence

If you are unable to provide photographic evidence then we would request you provide one of the following:

• Birth Certificate
• Marriage Certificate
• Divorce Annulment Papers

If you are unable to provide any documentation then we may still register you, this may involve a phone call between you and our Registrations Team