New Patient Registration

When registering, please bring your NHS Medical card to the Practice and those of any other persons registering with you. We also require proof of your address, a recent utility bill or rent/mortgage agreement, and photographic ID. You will be asked to complete a registration form for each person registering with the Practice.

If you are newly resident in the UK or you are an overseas visitor then additional documentation is required – contact our reception team for more information.

In addition, all patients will be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire, allowing us to provide medical care in the interim period, while your medical records are transferred from your old practice to this one. If you move out of the practice area, you will need to re-register with a Practice in your area.

Patients are registered with practice, not an individual GP. For administrative reasons your medical card will be issued in the name of one of the doctors; however you can at any time express a preference for a particular doctor, for either all of your medical needs or on a case-by-case basis. This preference will be recorded in your medical notes and we will do our best to respect your choice. However, not all the doctors in the practice provide all services.

Practice Boundary 

The boundary area for the Practice is as follows:

Along London Road to the top of Easter Road, down Easter Road (right side only), along East Hermitage Place and Claremont Park then onto Seafield Road along Seafield Road East and onto Sir Harry Lauder Road, turning right onto Milton Road West and Duddingston Road, through the village and along Queens Drive, past Arthur Seat then back onto London Road.

Please telephone reception, if you are unsure if you are living within the practice boundary area.

Guide to GP Services

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

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 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.

Temporary Registration Form