How To Register With The Practice

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

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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

Register with us - Out of Area Scheme

We’re delighted that you would like to register with us.  Thank you for showing an interest.

In November 2018 the practice registration scheme changed.  Our practice catchment area changed slightly and we are now free to register new patients who live outside the practice area.

Whilst we are permitted to register any patient from across England, we recognise that it’s not always in your interest to register at The St Vincent Practice if you live a long way from us and have complex care needs.  Therefore, we review every registration of a patient who does not live in our practice boundary area to ensure that we can give you the best possible care we have to offer. Where we feel that we cannot provide this high level of care, we reserve the right to decline your application to register with us so that your needs can be more appropriately met closer to where you live.

Unlike other healthcare providers, we do not have an extensive list of healthcare exclusions.  We review each patient case by case to ensure that the care we offer you is appropriate for your needs.

How will I get my prescriptions?

Here at The St Vincent Practice we are very technologically enabled.  We can send your prescriptions to any pharmacy in England who are also linked to the NHS electronic prescribing system (EPS). Unfortunately, not all medicines can be sent electronically via EPS and so what we can prescribe you is impressive but limited and may mean that for some items you will have to attend the surgery to pick up a paper prescription.

How will I get a home visit?

We are unable to provide home visits for patients who are registered with us on the out of area scheme.  If you need a home visit, you will need to call 111 and explain that you need a home visit as part of the out of area scheme.

What about referrals to hospital?

Patients in England are entitled to be referred to any hospital they like that is able to provide them with the appropriate care that they need.  Patient choice is enshrined in the NHS constitution.  If you would like referral to a hospital close to where you live, then just let us know.

Downloads

Out of area registration application and home visit waiver

 Out of Area Registration Form

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