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New Patient Registration
Register with the practice as a new patient
How to Register
Check you live within the boundary area
- We can only accept new patients who live in our practice area (see map below)
- If you need to check to find out if you reside within our practice area, please call reception on 024 7667 2277
- Your NHS number can be obtained by contacting your previous GP or via the NHS website (we cannot register you until we receive this)
- You can register with the surgery by completing the NHS GP online registration form which will display when you input an eligible postcode in the boundary checker below
When you register, we will ask you to make an appointment to see the practice nurse (or doctor if you are on regular medication) for a new patient health check. This will ensure that our records are accurate and all routine checks to promote your health and wellbeing (such as blood pressure/smear tests/mammograms) are up-to-date.
Temporary Services
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 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.
Translation Services
We can now offer translation services upon request.
For more details please speak to a member of our healthcare team.
Veterans
Please let us know if you have served in any of the armed forces so that we can reflect this on your medical record.
Your Named GP
From 1 April 2015, practices are required to allocate a named GP to all patients (including children). All new patients will be allocated their named GP within 21 days of registration. For existing patients we will allocate a named GP. If you want to know who your named GP is then please just ask at reception.
If any patient requests a particular GP as their named GP instead of the one allocated, then we will always try to arrange this.
Having a named GP does not mean that you have to see that doctor; you are welcome to see the GP you usually see, or the GP you would want to see for a particular problem – even if they are not your named GP.
Just as now, the GP you usually see, or your named GP, will not always be available and there will be times when you see different GPs in the practice. We do work as a team at the practice, and that will still be the case – there will always be a doctor to take responsibility for you.
The benefit of having a named GP is that if you were ever to feel that you needed one doctor in particular to take responsibility for looking after you, then you already have the name of the doctor who is happy to take on that role.
Providing NHS Services
Forrest Medical Centre
6 Prior Deram Walk
Coventry
CV4 8FT
Telephone: 024 7667 2277