How To Register With Us

Welcome to Bottisham Medical Practice 

We have an open list and welcome registrations from new patients living within our catchment area. Please enter your postcode in the box below to check you are in our catchment area. 

Please complete the Registration Form. You will need Your NHS Number.

You may download and complete the registration form and bring it to Reception.

Alternatively you may register online here.

It takes 5 working days for a registration to be completed. We are unable to prescribe repeat prescriptions until your registration is complete. 

You may need to speak to a GP before we issue your repeat medications to ensure they are being safely monitored. 

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.

From April 2015 all patients, including children, must be allocated a named, accountable GP who takes responsibility to oversee the delivery of care.  Although this is a new requirement in the GP contract, Bottisham Medical Practice has always allocated a named GP to patients automatically, however you are able to request a preferred GP and we will do our best to accommodate you.  

Having an allocated GP does not prevent patients from seeing any other doctor at the practice. Patients can and should feel free to see any GP at the practice in line with current appointment arrangements and availability.

Please note:

The role of the named GP WILL NOT:

• Take on vicarious responsibility for the work of other doctors or health professionals,
• Take on 24-hour responsibility for the patient, or have to change their working hours,
• Imply personal availability for GPs throughout the working week,
• Be the only GP or clinician who will provide care to that patient

Please do not hesitate to ask reception who your named, accountable GP is, when you are next at the practice.

Disabled patient facilities are also available at this practice.

(Car park space, electric doors, wheelchairs, disabled toilet etc).

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	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French