Non-urgent advice: Patient notice
Appointments cannot be booked until after the initial health check.
To register with our practice, you can register Online, visit us or telephone reception and request to be registered.
Once accepted you will be asked to complete a brief health questionnaire and book an appointment for an initial health check with the healthcare assistant. Your registration cannot be completed until after this health check, following which we can request your medical records from your previous GP.
Practice Area
The Practice Area covers Illingworth, Ovenden, Bradshaw, Lee Mount, Wheatley, Holmfield, Boothtown & Mixenden, however we will consider registering you wherever you may live.
If your postcode is not within our main catchment area, please call us on 01422 247528, option 5 and we will advise you further.
Catchment Area
Medical treatment is available from the date of registration. Please contact reception for further information.
Online Registration
The quickest and most efficient way to register with our practice is to follow the online registration process, please follow the link below to begin.
Out of Area Registrations
New arrangements introduced from January 2015 give people greater choice when choosing a GP practice. Patients may approach any GP practice, even if they live outside the practice area, to see if they will be accepted on to the patient list.
GP practices have always had the ability to accept patients who live outside their practice area. Regardless of distance from the practice, the practice would still provide a home visit if clinically necessary.
The new arrangements mean GP practices now have the option to register patients who live outside the practice area but without any obligation to provide home visits.
Out of area registration (with or without home visits) is voluntary for GP practices meaning patients may be refused because they live out of area.
If your application is considered the GP practice will only register you without home visits if it is clinically appropriate and practical in your individual case.
To do this we may:
- Ask you or the practice you are currently registered with questions about your health to help decide whether to register you in this way
- Ask you questions about why it is practical for you to attend this practice (for example, how many days during the week you would normally be able to attend)
If accepted, you will attend the practice and receive the full range of services provided as normal at the surgery. If you have an urgent care need and the surgery cannot help you at home we may ask you to call NHS 111 and they will put you in touch with a local service (this may be a face to face appointment with a local healthcare professional or a home visit where necessary).
We may decide that it is not in your best interests or practical for you to be registered in this way. In these circumstances we may offer you registration with home visits, for example, if you live just outside the practice area or we may not register you and advise you should seek to register (or remain registered) with a more local practice.
If accepted but your health needs change we may review your registration to see if it would be more appropriate for you to be registered with a GP practice closer to your home.
This new arrangement only applies to GP practices and patients who live in England. For further information visit the NHS Choices website (www.nhs.uk).
Temporary Registration
If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a GP practice but need to seek medical attention 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.
Changes to Personal Details
It is essential that we always have accurate information on all our patients. If we ever have to cancel a surgery or clinic due to staff illness or any other occurrence beyond our control, we may have to contact you quickly. If you change address, name or telephone number please let us know immediately so that our records are kept up to date.
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.