Joining Forum Family Practice

If you live in our practice area and would like to register with us please complete one of our registration forms that are available on this page or from our reception staff. On the form you will be able to state which doctor you would prefer to see on a regular basis, subject to their availability. Please also bring photographic I.D (driving licence, passport) and proof of your current address.

We aim to offer all new patients, over the age of 16 years, a medical review when they join the Practice. To help us gather important information about our new patients we appreciate the completing of a health questionnaire and for our new patients to bring a specimen of urine for testing at the consultation.

How To Register?

Please follow the registration process below.

Check You Live Within The Boundary Area

Enter your post code to check you live within the practice boundary area

If you are already a patient and are about to move to a new address please let the reception team know by completing our change of details form. They can decide whether or not you are still within our catchment area. If you are not, and you would like to stay with the practice, please let us know. All cases will be dealt with on an individual basis, by the practice manager and your named doctor.

Complete Our Patient Registration Forms

If you live within the boundary area, please complete our new patient registration:

For identification purposes, you may need to upload proof of ID and proof of address at the end of the form. Proof of ID can be a passport or driving licence. Proof of address can be a utility bill (gas, electricity or water) or bank statement – dated within the last 3 months.

New Patient Registration

Accessibility Needs Form

Communication Consent Form

Book a New Patient Health Check

Once the registration process is complete you will receive a confirmation letter from the registration department.

When you receive this, please call to book in a new patient health check with Healthcare Assistant.

Visit our appointments page to find out how to book your new patient health check

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.

Further Information on Temporary Registration

Accountable / Named GP

As part of a national programme, from April 2015 all practices are required to provide all their patients with a named GP who will have overall responsibility for the care and support that the surgery provides to them. The Forum Family Practice operate personal GP lists and you as a patient will be informed of your named GP at the point of registration.

Your named GP will have overall responsibility for your care but it does not prevent or restrict you from seeing any other GP or nurse in the Practice.

The NHS App

Forum Family Practice would like to invite you to use The NHS App

Owned and run by the NHS, the NHS App is a simple and secure way to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.

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