We are using a new online service called Register with a GP surgery that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery.

Just fill in this quick online form to start the process. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.

The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe. It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register.

Alternatively, if you live in the catchment area and wish to register at the practice via paper format you can still submit a registration pack, which can be requested at reception.

Once completed please bring along your registration pack to the surgery along with identification and address confirmation documentation. For permanent UK residents such documentation would include photo identification such as a passport or driving licence and a utility bill dated within the last 3 months.  

Which ever way you choose to register, you will be registering with the practice rather than an individual doctor. However, when making an appointment, you may specify that you wish to see a particular doctor, this will of course only be subject to availability.

Catchment Area

Higham Ferrers, Rushden, Chelveston, Newton Bromswold, Knuston, Caldecott .

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

This is a secure Electronic record of important information about your health and will only be available to health care professionals providing you with treatment in England and they will ask your permission before they look at this information. This means that if you have an accident or become ill, medical staff treating you will have access to important information about your health. The record will contain information about the medicine you take, any allergies you suffer from and any bad reactions you have had to any medicine. The surgery is  supporting the Summary Care Record however you do have a choice and you can change your mind at any time:

• Yes I would like a Summary Care Record - You dont have to do anything

• No I dont want a Summary Care Record - Ask at reception for an opt out form  when you register with us, you must fill  it in and hand it back to the receptionist

For more information: www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk  or phone 0300 303 5035

If you do nothing we will assume you are happy with these changes and create a Summary Care Record for you. Children under 16 will automatically have a Summary Care Record created for them unless a parent or guardian opts out on their behalf.

Disabled patient facilities are also available at this practice.

(Car park space, ramp, toilet etc).