Register with our practice
We welcome new patients who live within our practice area to register with us. We do not register patients who live outside our catchment area.
Please ensure you have enough medication from your current GP to last you a few weeks. Your records will be transferred from your previous practice for us to access when you next require medical attention. You will be assigned a ‘Registered GP’ but you can book an appointment to see any GP at the surgery. You can request to change your Registered GP, which will be reviewed by the practice, and maybe declined if the GP you wish to change to is oversubscribed.
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Named GP
All registered patients have a named doctor who has overall responsibility for their care and support. Your registered GP is also your named accountable GP.
Your allocated GP will be responsible for the provision of your healthcare. However, if you choose to see another doctor at the surgery you are entirely free to go on doing so.
If you are unsure of who is your named Doctor please ask at reception.
Patients have the right to express a preference of doctor on their records. However, the practice may not always be able to comply with your request. If this is the case, we will explain why.
What are the responsibilities of the named accountable GP?
The named accountable GP will take responsibility for the co-ordination of all appropriate services and ensure that they are delivered to each of their patients where required (based on the GP’s clinical judgment) to each of their patients
The British Medical Association (BMA) advises that the role of the named GP will not:
- Take on vicarious responsibility for the work of other doctors or health professionals
- Take on 24-hour responsibility for the patient, or have to change their working hours
- Imply personal availability for GPs throughout the working week
- Be the only GP or clinician who will provide care to that patient
- If you would like to know who your named GP is, please ask when you next attend the surgery.
- Please note that whenever a GP leaves or joins the partnership, the health authority reallocates the patient lists. It may be that your named GP will change under such circumstances. We are not able to contact patients individually about such changes, but we will publicise any partnership changes and advise patients wishing to know who their named GP is to ask at the surgery.
Accessing someone else's information
You can ask us to register you for proxy access. We will guide you through the set-up process.
If the relative or person you wish to act on behalf of is at a different practice to yourself, you can ask us to register you for proxy access.
What information do you need to provide to act on behalf of someone?
When we register you for proxy access, you will need to provide your identification (ID) to establish you are the person that you say you are. Please check with us with regards to the type of ID we require.
A legal basis will also be required. If the relative or person you wish to act on behalf of is aged over 11 years, consent from them for the proxy access must be provided to us and recorded in either:
- Verbal consent to the GP witnessing the consent.
- Written consent.A signed consent form, or a letter from the relative or person, requesting that you are given proxy access. This form will detail the level of access you will require, if you are uncertain about what access you require, please discuss this with us. Examples include: access to book appointments and order repeat prescriptions only; or access to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, view the patient’s medical records, share or download the patient’s medical records.
