New Patients

Registration forms can be collected from reception or completed online below. PLEASE BE AWARE IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE ALL FORMS YOU WILL NOT BE REGISTERED. However, if you DO want other healthcare professionals to view your record you DO NOT have to fill out the OPT-OUT form, we will assume you are happy to share your record if you have not filled that form out.

The practice serves an area extending as a 3 mile radius from the surgery. Any newcomers to the area, living within this boundary, are welcome to join the practice. 

If possible also add your NHS number in the form. If you do not know your NHS number then please contact your previous surgery and they will be able to give you this over the phone.

A few patients living outside this boundary, and who have been with the practice for some time, are still registered with Lime Grove. Due to increasing demands upon time, the Partners will only consider whether to accept or retain patients who move outside the 3 mile area at their discretion.

On registering as a new patient, you will be sent a letter inviting you in for a wellbeing health check. If you would like to book in for a health check, please call 01629 581586 to make an appointment, after registering with us.

Any patients who move address within the practice area are asked to notify the administration staff as soon as possible. Patients moving out of the 3 mile radius will be asked to register at a practice in the new area.

If you are ill and need medical attention while away from home  you can register as a temporary  patient up to 14 days at the 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.

If you are away from home and have forgotten your medication you can contact your own GP who hold your medical records and a prescription can be sent to a local pharamacy in the area you are staying.

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	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French

The surgery facilities are provided on the ground floor level and the lower ground floor. Both can be accessed by wheelchairs.

Accessable toilets are provided on both levels. The ground floor toilets are adjacent to the waiting room area and the lower ground floor are along the corridor.

A hearing loop, BSL interpreters and Capita interpreters are available at the surgery.  If you need further information in regards to accessibility please ask at reception.