New Patient Registration

In order to register you must complete a form so that we have some knowledge of your medical history whilst we await the arrival of your medical records.

You may see any doctor that you wish.

Please tell us if you have any special health needs or if you care for a relative with such needs.

We encourage all new patients to have a health check examination soon after registering. Please make an appointment with one of the Practice nurses.

Click here to see our Practice location.

A map showing our Practice area is located in the surgery.

Named Usual GP

When a patient registers at Elm Tree Surgery they will be allocated a named ‘Usual GP’.

The named ‘Usual GP’ performs an administration role on behalf of the patient and may not be the GP the patient chooses to see when they make an appointment.

If a patient would like to know the name of their ‘Usual GP’ they should ask a member of the reception team.

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.