New Patient Registration

If you would like to become a patient with Southdene Medical Centre, please contact reception and make an appointment with our Health Care Assistant  for a New patient Check. When you attend this appointment, please bring with you your Registration form, Health Questionnaire, Photo ID and proof of address, if available. During this appointment you will be registered with the practice and receive a simple health check and we will take details of your medical history.

If you are on any medication, please make an appointment with the doctor. This will assist us while we are waiting for your medical records to arrive.

Please contact reception for further information.

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

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

If you wish to complete a pre-registration form, click on the link below to open the form. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. This does not automatically register you with the practice.  You will now need to contact the practice and make an appointment for a New Patient Check.  To this appointment please bring with you a completed Health Questionnaire, photo ID and proof of address if available. You will be  asked to confirm that the details are correct and sign the pre-registration form. You will then be registered and a simple Health Check will be completed.

Pre-registration Form

When you register you will also be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. There is an online version of this file too, which you may fill out and send to us. When you come to the surgery you will be asked to sign this form to confirm that the details are correct.

Online Medical Questionnaire For New Patients

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

Alternatively you may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you on your first visit to the practice.

Registration Form

Non-English Speakers

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 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.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form