New Patient Registration

If you have recently moved into our practice area and wish to register, please bring your NHS medical card and photographic identification and proof of your present address. i.e bank statement, tenancy aggreement to the surgery and those of any persons registering with you.You will be required to complete a registration form and health questionnaire.

The practice area extends for approximately 6 miles and includes Castlewellan, Clough and Dundrum.

All patients will be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire, allowing us to provide medical care in the interim period, while your medical notes are transferred from your old doctor.

In addition, all new patients should make an appointment with the doctor within 28 days of registering. Please bring a specimen of urine with you to this appointment.

If you move out of the practice area, you need to register with a new practice as soon as you move.

Please endeavour to keep your details up to date with the practice including mobile telephone numbers.

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

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY OUT OF SERVICE. PLEASE CALL INTO THE SURGERY TO REGISTER, BRINGING WITH YOU PHOTOGRAPHIC ID AND A CURRENT BANK STATEMENT SHOWING ACTIVITY OR A UTILITY BILL WITH YOUR AME AND ADDRESS.

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. .

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.

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.