New Patient Registration

If you move into the practice area you may register with us by completing a form GMS1. An example of 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

Catchment Area

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice catchment area is the CO3 postcode.

Please check NHS Choices if you are unsure if you fall under this area.

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

If you wish to pre-register with us please complete the relevant questionnaires at the bottom of this page. When you have completed all of the details, you can then email this to ambroseavenuesurgery@nhs.net or bring the form into the surgery. When you visit the surgery, you will be asked to complete a GMS1 form and you will need to provide 2 forms of Identification to enable us to register you with the practice.  

PLEASE NOTE YOUR REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE PROCESSED UNTIL A GMS1 IS COMPLETED AND SIGNED. YOU WILL NEED TO ATTEND THE SURGERY TO DO THIS.

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 to the surgery.

New Patient Adult Questionaire 

New Patient Childrens Questionaire

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.

You can now use our printable form to complete any change of names and addresses. Please click on the link below and print the form.

Change of Patient details form

You will need to provide proof of both address or name change in order for us to update your records. You can also email us the completed form along with evidence to us at ambroseavenuesurgery@nhs.net

Please see below for a printable copy of our Practice Leaflet.

Practice Leaflet