New Patient Registration

When you want to register with a new GP practice, you’ll need to follow these steps to ensure that your new GP practice has all your medical history and your medical records.  If this is your first registration with a GP practice in the UK, medical records from outwith the United Kingdom will not be traced.  You can only register with a GP practice if you are staying in the area for more than 3 months. If you are not, you may still be treated, but as a Temporary Resident.

You need to complete the 2 following forms (5 pages in total):

Please click here for the Patient Registration Form

Please click here for the New Patient Questionnaire/NOK/Preferred Pharmacy/KIS (Key Summary Information)

Once completed, you can either email it to the Practice nhsh.gp55709-admin@nhs.scot or post it to either Surgery. 

To help us process your requests for repeat medications when you register with us, please can you submit:

• A copy of your previous repeat medications slip
• a summary of your medical records from your previous practice, or if you have a smart phone, a picture of your current medications (showing the labels) which can be emailed to our practice email address. We thank you for your co-operation with this.

On receipt of the registration form you will receive a conformation email to confirm we have received and accepted your registration.  This process can take up to 2 weeks for you to be registered. You will not be registered with any one particular doctor, but you can request to see a particular doctor if you so wish, it may just mean a longer wait for an appointment.  You may receive a phonecall from a GP/Nurse or Pharmacist to discuss any details.

Change of Details

If you change your name, address or telephone number, please notify the surgery as soon as possible in order that we can amend your details.

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

Practice Boundary

If you live out with the area below, please go to the NHS Inform website to find the nearest practice in your area.

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.