New Patient Registration

Our patient registration policy does not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation or appearance, disability or medical condition.

How to Register

Patients who live within the practice catchment area can register with us

Please enter your postcode into the interactive map below to check if you are within our catchment area.

Once you have confirmed that your address is within our catchment area, please complete the New Patient Registration Form below.

REGISTER AT OUR GP PRACTICE

If you prefer not to register online, please complete the following steps:

The NHS App

Somerset Bridge Medical Centre 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 contact your GP and access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.

FIND OUT MORE AND DOWNLOAD THE APP

Further Information

Out of Area Registrations

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept registrations from addresses outside our boundary area.

If you need to register with a GP surgery, please visit the link below.

Temporary Registration

You register as a temporary patient with the practice if you are staying nearby and are ill while away from home. You can also temporarily register if you are not registered with a doctor but urgently need to see one.

If you are already registered at another nearby practice, you cannot register with us.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This allows you to access our services but stay a patient of your registered GP practice. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient. You can also register as a full-time patient with us.

We do not have to accept you as a temporary patient. We do have to offer you immediately necessary and or urgent treatment.

What can temporary patients expect from the practice?

There is no funding for temporary patients. Seeing them reduces the services we can to offer our registered patients. For this reason we only see temporary patients when immediately necessary and urgent.

This means some of our services are not available to temporary patients. For example, referrals, warfarin checks, and repeat medicines. 

Immediately necessary treatment is treatment that:

  • is needed to save a life,

  • is needed to stop a health problem from becoming life-threatening, or

  • is needed to stop permanent damage from occurring.

Urgent treatment is treatment that:

  • cannot wait until the person can be reasonably expected to return home.

Medicines While on Holiday

Please do not try to register as a temporary patient to get medicines. We cannot give repeat prescriptions to temporary patients.

Contact your registered practice if you do not have enough of your medicine. Your registered practice will be able to send your prescription to a pharmacy of your choice. Please do this as soon as possible so that it doesn't become urgent. If you let your doctor know of your holiday before you go they can arrange for enough medicines in advance.

If you urgently need your medicine a local pharmacy may be able to offer an emergency supply. You will need proof of the medicine normally prescribed to you. Emergency supply is a private service, and you will have to pay for the medicine supplied.

You can also use NHS 111 to request an emergency supply of medicine you have completely run out of.

Named Accountable GP

All our patients have a named GP who handles their care. This is a practice-based arrangement, meaning overall responsibility for your care remains with the practice team as a whole.

You do not have to see your named GP for appointments. You are welcome to book with any GP or nurse within the practice team, depending on your needs and preferences.

Please contact the practice if you wish to know who your named GP.

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