How do I join the practice?

If you live within our catchment area and wish to register at this practice please ask the receptionist for details about registering.

The registration forms will ask you for details such as your name, address, date of birth, telephone number and previous address and doctor. These details are needed to help the Primary Care Trust obtain your medical records from your previous doctor and the form needs your signature. You will also be given forms to fill out which cover your past medical history and various lifestyle questions.

After completion of these forms you may be offered a New Patient Check. If you have complicated medical problems the nurse may refer you to the doctor for review.

If the practice feels they are unable to accept you as a patient it will explain the reasons for this to you. The practice can decline to register patients for various reasons; these include living outside the catchment area.

Please be aware that we do not accept forms sent over the internet.

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

Catchment Area

The practice catchment area consists of the Egremont and Cleator Moor areas. Anyone residing in this area is able to register with the practice. The practice is able to take on patients from other area only if there is capacity to do so.

Patients already on the practice list who move to other areas within the catchment area are able to stay registered if they wish to do so. Individuals moving outside this area need to register with a practice local to them.

The catchment area is recorded at the practice - please enquire at reception.

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

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 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.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form