How to register
We are happy to register new NHS patients within our practice boundary area.
Option 1- Register via NHS website:
We are using an online service called Register with a GP surgery that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number. The service is run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe. It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register.
Register via NHS websiteOption 2- Register at the surgery
There are paper copies of all forms available at reception. You can also download the forms here:
Read our full practice patient registration policy (Pdf)
Please complete all the forms as incomplete forms will delay your registration. Registration forms can be printed via the links below or collected from the surgery:
We are currently accepting New Patient Registration Applications between Tuesday – Friday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm only. Please visit the surgery between those times for New Patient Registration Applications.
Our current wait times for processing New Patient Registration Applications are between 3 – 4 weeks.
Alternatively, please email us the completed New Patient Registration Applications to nhsnwl.css@nhs.net along with a proof of ID and a proof of address.
Temporary Residents
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.
Overseas Visitors
Primary care is free for all and the first point of contact for most people. It is delivered by a wide range of independent contractors, such as general practitioners (GPs), dentists, pharmacists and optometrists, through NHS walk-in centres and the NHS 111 telephone service.
Hospital treatment is free to people classed as “ordinarily resident” in the UK. This is not dependent on nationality, payment of UK taxes, National Insurance (NI) contributions, being registered with a GP, having an NHS Number or owning property in the UK.
To be considered ordinarily resident, and entitled to free hospital treatment, you must be living in the UK on a lawful and properly settled basis for the time being – you may be asked to prove this.
Non-EEA nationals who are subject to immigration control are not classed as ordinarily resident unless they have indefinite leave to remain.
For more information please see here.