New Patients
Register as New Patient
The doctors welcome new patients who live within our practice catchment area.
Birchwood Medical Practice
Complete a registration form and health questionnaire. If you have no medical card we can still register you with your NHS number.
Patients are registered with all Partners at the medical practice and will be allocated a named responsible GP to oversee their care.
Health screening will be offered to patient e.g. elderly health screening to patients over 75 that have not been seen within 12 months, cervical and breast screening to females, child health assessments.
You can now register online with the following link-
https://gp-registration.nhs.uk/C83082
Please contact reception for further information.
Practice Boundary
Temporary Patient Registrations
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.
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:
Disabled Patient Facilities
- Premises are on one floor with no steps
- Automatic doors at main entrance
- Disabled toilet facilities with alarm for assistance
- We have hydraulic adjusting couches in the treatment rooms and consultation rooms to provide comfortable examination facilities and easy access.
- A mixture of high back and bariatric chairs for the elderly and infirm in the waiting room
- There are handrails at the front entrance and down the corridors to the twelve consulting rooms.
- There are three dedicated parking bays and a drop off point at the main entrance of the practice.
- A portable hearing loop is available on request.
- A wheelchair can be provided for use inside the medical practice
Please let the receptionist know if you need help due to vision or hearing difficulties - documents may be printed in larger font on request.
