Beacon Medical Practice are currently accepting new patients at all three of our Surgeries.
As well as in person, you can register online. This service makes it even easy to register with our surgery.
Simply fill in this quick online form to start the process.
You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.
The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe.
It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register.
We may contact you after we receive your registration, to obtain further information if required.
Please visit the link below to register:
https://gp-registration.nhs.uk/C83019
Paper forms are also available from our surgeries and are also downloadable, if you would prefer to register in this way.
New Patient Registration Procedure
To register as a patient at the Practice, you must ensure that you live within our catchment area.
Each Practice has its own catchment area, an area within which we can accept new patients from.
You can find out whether you live within our catchment area by entering your postcode in the Catchment Area Tool.
How to register with this GP surgery – Beacon Medical Practice – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Then all you need to do is complete a New Patient Questionnaire (NPQ) and a GMS1 new patient registration form.
We ask all new patients to complete a simple questionnaire for themselves and their children.
We may need to have some basic information, to ensure you and your family receive continuity of care while we wait for your notes from your last GP practice. Without a correctly completed and signed form, we are unable proceed to register you as a patient.
When you register with us, you will be nominated a named accountable GP. This GP is responsible for coordinating your care. This does not restrict or prevent you from any GP at the practice.
On registration you can express a preference of doctor, but you may see any GP or member of our team.
If you are already taking regular medication, an appointment may be made for you, to review this with one of our clinicians.
You have a choice of ways that you can register as a patient:
1. Download and complete a GMS1 – New Patient Registration form To help us understand your medical history you should also download and complete a New Patient Questionnaire (NPQ). Both these forms should be handed in at our reception desk.
2. The GMS 1 New Patient Registration form and the New Patient Questionnaire form are also available at reception. You can collect them from any of our surgeries for completion at your leisure – or you can fill them in at our reception.
Preventing identity fraud
Because of identity theft, regulations suggest that all new patients should provide proof of identity and residence. We will therefore ask to see visual identification such as a passport or photographic driving licence along with a bill or statement confirming address (e.g. utility bill, credit card or bank statement, which should not be more than 3 months old, or your current council tax bill).
Please note, only original documents are acceptable for identification purposes.
SMS Text Messaging Service
When you register you will be asked for your mobile phone number because, at times, we may to contact you by text.
With your consent we will text you to confirm any appointments, to remind you of appointments, or to advise you of other important information regarding your health needs.
These texts will not contain any clinical information or any information that can identify you personally.
Do not forget to inform us, if you change your mobile number.
New-born babies
It is advisable to register a new-born baby as soon as possible. The hospital or midwife will have issued parents with an NHS number. Parents registering new babies will need to bring the red book or birth certificate.
Temporary Residents
A patient can register as a temporary resident if they are resident in the practice catchment area for more than 24 hours but not more than 3 months.
Our Clinical staff are happy to see patients who are temporarily residing in the practice area, should medical advice be required.
Patients wishing to be treated should state that they are a temporary resident when presenting at one of our receptions.
Summary Care Record
A Summary Care Record (SCR) is an electronic record which contains information about the medicines you take, allergies you suffer from and any adverse reactions to medicines you have had.
Having this information stored in one place makes it easier for healthcare staff to treat you in an emergency or when your GP practice is closed.
Your Summary Care Record will be available to authorised healthcare staff providing your care anywhere in England, but they will ask your permission before they look at it. This means that if you have an accident or become ill, healthcare staff treating you will have immediate access to important information about your health.
Our Practice is supporting Summary Care Records and as a patient you have a choice:
- Yes, I would like a Summary Care Record – you do not need to do anything and a Summary Care Record will be created for you.
- No, I do not want a Summary Care Record – Please complete the opt out form, located in New Patient Questionnaire (NPQ), and hand it to a member of our Reception team.
