New Patient Registration

The Practice covers an area of approximately six miles in all directions from the town.

We are always pleased to welcome new patients to our Practice. If you wish to join please contact reception to make an appointment with the Practice nurse.

You will be asked to bring your medical card with you to this consultation (if you are unable to locate your medical card we will provide you with a short form to complete, to receive a duplicate card).

At this consultation a medical examination is offered and an opportunity will be given for you to enlist for relevant clinics.

Change of Personal Details

If you change your name, address or telephone number (landline or mobile) please let us know at reception as soon as possible.

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

As medical records can take months to reach us from a patients previous Doctor, the Department of Health requires that all new patients over the age of five years be offered an appointment to record data relevant to their own personal medical care. 

When you attend for your New Patient Registration appointment with our practice nurse, it would be most helpful if you could please bring:

• Medical Card with Health & Care Number
• Registration form either:
  • HS200 (NI internal transfers & GB Transfers) OR
  • HSCR1 (New entrants to the UK) providing necessary supporting documentation as detailed on each form.
• The completed questionnaire with a list of current medication from previous GP

You may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you on your first visit to the practice.

Registration form for patients wishing to transfer GP within NI or transferring from Great Britain

Registration form for eligible visitors or persons taking up ordinary residence in NI

Non-English Speakers

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

Rights of Patients 

All Patients:

• Are given appropriate drugs and medication on prescription
• Are referred to a consultant when clinically required 
• Have access to medical records 
• Receive appropriate medical treatment through a GP
• Can choose whether or not to take part in medical research
• Receive a full and prompt reply to complaints about services by the practice.

Responsibilities of Patients 

• To be punctual for all appointments 
• To give as much notice as possible if unable to attend for an appointment 
• To be prepared to see any doctor if your preferred GP is unavailable
• To only contact the Out of Hours services in an emergency which cannot wait until the next working day 
• To treat doctors and staff with courtesy and respect 
• To be patient if appointment times are running late 
• To request a home visit as early in the day as possible to assist with workload planning and only if an illness or medical condition prevents you from attending the practice premises
• To remember that each 10 minute appointment is for one person and one problem only
• To remember that we have a 'Zero Tolerance' policy towards the abuse of staff.  Any patient being abusive or violent to staff will be removed from the practice list.