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

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You’ll hear a lot in the coming days about GPs being on strike and various twists on this. We are not on strike but we are taking a stance about inadequate practice funding and unfunded work. We want to keep our surgery as your local surgery and family GPs. Practices are closing and jobs are being lost nationally. The short video below explains what is actually happening. We get £107 per patient per year. 30 pence a day, to provide your healthcare, whether you see us once in 10 years or see our healthcare team several times a week. You will notice some changes in the coming months, but as the GP partners, we are doing this to protect our staff, but ultimately we are doing this to provide continued and SAFE patient care.

Please see link below to video.

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Registration

Registration Forms

Non-English Speakers

Young Person Guide to GP's

HOW TO REGISTER WITH A GP

If you wish to register at the surgery you will need to complete a online registration form or call in person to the practice to collect the forms which you can take away and complete at your leisure.

We will need the

The registration process can take some time so please avoid coming to the surgery at busy times. After 2pm is best.

All applications to register with us will be considered equally and without discrimination of any kind.

PRACTICE AREA

Our practice area mainly covers the CV6 postal code area and stretches as far as the Holyhead Road to the west of the surgery, Keresley Village to the north, Foleshill Road / Lockhurst Lane to the east and the Ring Road to the south.

Online Registration with the Practice

PreRegistration

We are using a new online service called Register with a GP surgery that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery.

New patients just need to fill in an online form to get started. They do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.

Paper forms are available for people who need them.

The service is designed and run by the NHS. It aims to cut practices’ workloads and make GP registration easier for the public.

When you visit the surgery for the first time you will be asked to sign the form to confirm that the details are correct.

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.

Thank you for choosing to register with Springfield Medical Practice.

To complete your registration, we require that you collect the forms from the surgery and complete the GMS1 form, The New Patient Registration Questionnaire and two pages of the Alcohol Screening Questionnaire.

These forms take some time to complete so you may wish to take them away with you and collect the evidence that you need to register. Alternatively, you can complete the forms online .

When you have fully completed the forms and have the required evidence, please bring all the paperwork to the surgery between 2pm to 5pm from Monday to Friday. A Receptionist will check the paperwork to complete the registration process.

If you are unsure of your current blood pressure, we have a machine in reception that you can use, and the receptionist will be happy to assist you.

For Children who are Registering

We require information regarding childhood immunisations (In the UK this would be the red book that all children are issued with). If you have moved from outside the UK, then documentation of proof of immunisations is required.

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
Farsi

This leaflet is for you if you’re under 16. It explains that anyone who looks after your health has to keep information about you private. This may be doctors, nurses, pharmacists or other health workers.

Guide to Accessing Services for Young People