We welcome new patients from the following areas:

IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER:

ADULTS: Please complete the following:

• Registration Form (GMS1)
• New Patient Questionnaire

CHILDREN: The parent or guardian should complete the following:

• Child Registration Form
• New Patient Questionnaire

Paper forms are available at Glemsford Surgery reception to complete this.

It will be available online once the forms have been appropriately digitalised

ID REQUIREMENTS:

We will ask you for proof of identity. Please see our New Patient Registration Policy for further information.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Once you have been accepted as a patient, your medical records will be transferred to us. Your medical records may take several weeks to arrive at the practice.

If you are on regular medication, please ensure you order an adequate supply from your existing surgery before transferring to Glemsford to avoid any delays in receiving these. 

We advise all our new patients to make a routine health check with our practice nurse within the first three months of joining our practice.

The practice has a non-discrimination policy for accepting new patients. There are a number of reasons why you may not be able to register with your chosen GP. For example, you may live too far away. If this is the case, simply choose another GP in your local area. If you are not in area bit feel there are special circumstacnes that necessitate registration with our practice please inform the practice manager who will take your case to the practice management meeting for consideration. 

If English is not your first language, or you are deaf, the practice has access to interpreters. Please inform reception staff and this assistance can be provided.

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.

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

Disabled patient facilities are also available at this practice.

• Car park space
• Ramp
• Toilet 
• Accessible consulting rooms