If you wish to register as a patient, please complete the form available at reception and when returning it to the surgery please bring some form of photo ID.

If you are accepted onto the doctors list you will be asked to complete a patient questionnaire giving some background information and your medical history and you will be invited to see the Health Care Assistant for a new patient check.

Would patients please notify any change of address, including postcode and telephone number, or any change of name, as soon as possible so that our records may be kept up to date.

If you move outside the Practice area (map opposite) you will need to change your doctor.

Online Services Registrations

If you are having trouble registering for our online services, please click here.

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.

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	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French

There are adjacent public car parks but no patients’ car park at Dover.  There is, however, limited parking for registered disabled patients and easy access for the disabled into the surgery, including a lift. 

Our Whitfield Branch Surgery is a single story building with parking available.