New Patient Registration

If you move into the practice area you may bring your medical card to reception to register. Alternatively you may complete a form GMS1. This form can also be downloaded from the above "Registering Online" tab.

When registering you should always bring proof of identity and address, i.e. photo driving licence and utility bill. 

A new patient medical is available for all patients who register with the practice.

 Medical treatment is available from the date of registration, but please allow time for your registration to be actioned.  Please contact reception for further information.

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

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

If you wish to pre-register click on the link below to open the form. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. When you visit the surgery for the first time you will be asked to sign the form to confirm that the details are correct.

Pre-registration Form

When you register you will also be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. There is an online version of this file too, which you may fill out and send to us. When you come to the surgery you will be asked to sign this form to confirm that the details are correct. For children under 18 please complete the 'Childrens New Patient Registration' form together with the GMS1, no other forms need to be completed.

Online Medical Questionnaire For New Patients

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

Alternatively 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  Childrens New Patient Registraion FormRegistration_child_questionnaire.docx

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, an immediate and necessary form will need to be completed.  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

From April 2015 all practices are required to provide all their patients with a NAMED GP who wil have overall responsibility for the care and support that Ambrose Avenue Group Practice provides to them. Once you are registered with the Surgery please ask at Reception for this information, if you have a preference as to which GP that is, the practice will make reasonable efforts to accomodate this request.

If you are currently registered with us, you can continue to see the Usual GP of your choice, even if the named GP is different.