New Patient Registration

Practice Information Leaflet

As long as you live within our practice boundary area, which is the area of Weymouth, West of the River Wey, North of Ferrybridge and includes Chickerell to the West, you can register by collecting a registration pack from reception. 

You will need to provide your NHS number (which is obtainable from your previous surgery) and forms of identification which should ideally contain one form of photographic ID. 

All examples of what can be given are listed in our registration pack.  You will then be allocated a named, accountable GP who you will be informed of at the time of registration.

Please try to avoid bringing your registration form in before 10.00am in the mornings and between 12.00 – 14.00 over the lunch time. If you do bring them in during these times, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to deal with them in a timely manner and you may need to be prepared to wait as the surgery can be very busy.

Change in Circumstances

Please notify the practice of any changes in name, address or telephone number. It is important that we have your up-to-date contact details, specifically mobile numbers as we are able to send SMS text messages for confirmation and reminders for appointments.  

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.

If you are in the area temporarily and have forgotten your medication, you may not need an appointment to get it.  If your surgery provides electronic prescriptions they may be able to send your prescription to a local pharmacy of your choice.  Initially please telephone your practice and inform them of your predicament.  If they are able to send your prescription electronically, please help them by giving them the postcode of a local pharmacy of choice so they can find it on their directory.