New Patient Registration

We actively welcome new patients to our Practice. You can register at reception by using a registration form and supplying us with proof of identity and address. 

All new patients will also be asked to complete a lifestyle questionnaire and are advised to book an appointment with the practice nurse or HCA for a health check within 28 days of registering.

Both forms are available to download from the above "Registering Online" tab

The health check gives us the opportunity to review how we can best meet your health needs and also ensures you will have access to our full range of services.  Failure to book and attend the Health check screening may mean that you cannot access a GP.

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

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

 You may be aware that all practices are required to provide their patients with a named GP who will have overall responsibility for the care and support that our surgery provides to them.

The allocated named GP will have overall responsibility for the care and support that our surgery provides to you. This does not prevent you from seeing any GP in the practice as you currently do. 

Patients have been allocated their named GP in the following way*:

Having a named GP does not stop you from consulting with any GP in the practice.

At Market Street Medical Practice we want to make sure that we give you information in a way that is clear to you, and to have on record any communication needs you might have.

• We want to make sure you can read and understand the information we send you.

• If you find it hard to read our letters or if you need someone to support you at appointments, please let us know. 

• We want to know if you need information in braille, large print or easy read.

• We want to know if you need a British Sign Language interpreter or advocate.

• We want to know if we can support you to lip-read or use a hearing aid or communication tool.

If you would like to tell us of any communication needs you may have, please complete the survey below, or tell us.

MS Accessible Information Needs Questionnaire only.docx