To register with the practice you must be living within the practice catchment area within Wandsworth or Merton.
Catchment Area
You can also find out which GPs you can register with on the NHS website.
Registering with the surgery
To register with the surgery:
- use the NHS register with a GP surgery service
When you register, it’s helpful to have your NHS number. You can use the NHS website to find your NHS number.
When patients are determined to live outside of our practice boundary, they will not automatically be registered with the practice. As an organisation we need to consider the appropriateness of the registration. Whilst we understand that patients may work close to the practice or live near the practice for a proportion of their time, we still need to ensure that registering with us will not detrimentally affect their medical care and it is both clinically and practically appropriate for them to be registered.
Consideration will be given to things such as:
- The patient being able to attend the Practice any working day, during opening hours.
- Whether the patient has any personal factors or any concerns about their own health where these issues may put them at risk of not being able to attend the Practice.
- The patient has complex clinical conditions where managing conditions would be difficult to manage remotely, registering with a practice out of area would compromise clinical care and or the patients’ needs would be better met with registering with a practice nearer to their home address.
- The patients current need to access any community health or social care (these are locally organised teams and services)
- The patient is easily able to attend the Practice to collect items such as prescriptions, blood test or x-ray forms and can make these arrangements for yourself.
- Patients live within the local Merton/Wandsworth area, with the same community services / teams as those around the Practice.
In order to support our decision making we may ask the patient or their current practice (with the patients consent) questions to help inform whether to register you as an out of area patient.
The registration of out of area patients is at our discretion and if we feel that after registering the patient, that their care needs are more complex, then we can review their registration and ask them to register at a GP closer to home.
If you do reside outside of the boundary, we will not be able to undertake home visits for you.
Temporary Patients Registration Form
A temporary patient is someone who needs to register with a practice temporarily who cannot access their own GP Practice. Generally, if your own GP Practice is within a 50 mile radius, we would expect you to attend there unless the issue is an emergency (see immediately necessary below).
If you are visiting the area and require immediate and necessary treatment, you will need to register as a temporary patient. If you would like to register only as a temporary patient and remain registered at your usual GP practice, please visit the practice to complete a temporary registration form. We can then confirm whether we can assist you by telephone.
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.
Where a temporary registration is not suitable
Repeat medication: You can ask your current GP practice to send a repeat prescription electronically to a local pharmacy via EPS.
Ongoing treatments such as mental health issues or health checks; local services will usually only see those residing in the area; continuity of care and patient safety advises that patients see their regular GP for ongoing issues.
A problem where you can talk to a GP on the phone. There is no reason that this cannot take place with the Practice you are registered at.
Immediately Necessary Treatment Patients
This is for patient’s outside their normal GP’s area who cannot attend their normal GP practice and need to receive emergency treatment from a local GP practice.