Join the practice

Live within boundary area?

To be eligible to register at the practice, you must live within the practice catchment area.

Registration

If you are within our boundary and would like to join Lonsdale Medical Centre please could you download and complete the forms below.

You will still have to visit the surgery to show proof of identity (driving licence/passport) and address (utility bill/rental agreement/bank statement).

If you are visiting the UK on a working visa, reception staff will need to see this. Registration documents need to be completed for each family member; children under the age of 13yrs have different forms.

Please do not be offended if reception staff are unable to complete your registration due to insufficient documentation.

Once registered you will be able to make appointments – please allow at least one week.

Appointments and prescriptions can be requested on line. Once registered, relevant passwords can be printed out – please ask at reception.

Please print out and fill in one GMS1 form and a new patient questionnaire (adult or child) for each member of the family you would like to register. Also 2 forms of ID are required (photo ID and proof of address).

New Patient Questionnaire (Adult)

New Patient Questionnaire (Child)

GMS1 Form

Patient Leaflet (for you to keep)

If you wish to, you can now use the internet to book appointments with a GP, request repeat prescriptions for any medications you take regularly and look at your medical record online. Please read the patient information leaflet ‘It’s your choice’ if you are interested in having online access. You will need to complete the Application form for online access form and bring it in with your registration forms and 2 forms of ID (photo ID and proof of address).

Emergency & Immediately Necessary Treatment

GPs will provide all emergency and immediately necessary medical treatment regardless of your residence or visitor status.

Temporary Residents

If there is a routine appointment available at a time that is acceptable to you and you will be living in the practice area for more than 24hrs and less than 3 months, you may be registered as a temporary resident.

Charging temporary residents from overseas

We do not charge EU patients. If you are from  outside the EU it is possible a charge will be made. In addition, you may have to pay for your medication from a pharmacy or for any tests.

Permanent Patients

If you are going to be in the practice area for more than 3 months, you may register as a permanent patient. You will need to complete a registration form and provide 2 documents showing that you are resident in the area - eg utility bills, passport, driving licence etc.

Acceptance of a patient onto a GP practice’s list of patients allows access to primary care medical services, but it does not automatically entitle an individual to receive other NHS services free of charge.

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. 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