Great Western Medical Practice - Information for new patients wishing to join the doctors surgery

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Cancelling your Appointment
If you are unable to attend an appointment with one of the doctors or nurses, please telephone or use the link at the bottom of this page to cancel your appointment. By giving us as much notice as you can you are helping us to make sure that someone else is given your slot.

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Flu Season
We are now getting towards the end of the majority of the flu vaccinations in the practice. Over the next few weeks the last of the at risk groups should have been in for the annual flu vaccination. Anyone who has not yet received an appointment should phone the practice - around mid November. NOTE - if you are housebound and normally have the district nurse visit, then they will be starting their vaccination programme shortly.

We have over 2000 patients to vaccinate each year, so we are grateful for everyone's attendance and especially to the nurses for administering the vaccine.

Late Patients
If you are late for your appointment, the reception staff will check with the GP to see if you will still be seen, however if you are more than 10 minutes late you will have to re-book. If you feel you must be seen, please speak to the receptionist who can update the GP.

Registration

Non-English Speakers

Temporary Residents

Patient Registration

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The practice accepts patients new to the area and without a GP.

All patients are required to show proof of identify by way of passport (non-passport holders other photo id) and proof of residence eg a utility bill showing current address. Other proof may be requested depending on circumstances.

Registration paperwork will only be handed out once ID and proof of address has been seen.

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. It covers 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

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.

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 register with a 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 can only register as a temporary patient if you are staying outwith your own practice's boundary.

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