New Patients

Sometimes when filling in online forms or speaking with our staff, you may be asked for your NHS number.

This online tool will help you find your number if you do not know it.

The practice has signed up to provide urgent appointments and urgent home visits to patients who are resident in Calderdale but are registered with a practice taking part in the National Patient Choice Scheme.  These means that patients who are registered at one of the pilot sites can access urgent appointments or, if clinically indicated, have a home visit if they are too unwell to travel to their registered practice during weekday daytime in hours (8.00am to 6.30pm).  

The Patient Choice Scheme is to be piloted in the following areas:

Central London (City and Hackney Teaching PCT, Tower Hamlets PCT and Westminster PCT)
Nottingham City PCT
Manchester Teaching PCT
Salford PCT

(PCT = Primary Care Trust)

If you are registered with a practice in one of the above areas, and feel you need to access this service, please ring the surgery.  You will be asked to give some details to reception and you will receive a telephone call back from the on-call doctor who will triage your symptoms and decide if you need an emergency appointment, home visit or if there is a more appropriate way of receiving treatment (e.g.  Accident and Emergency).

Please try and help us by ringing as early as possible should you wish to access this service.  This enables us to plan the day more effectively and to try and keep the time that other patients are waiting at the surgery to a minimum.

Once you have been seen, either at the surgery or at home, details of your consultation/medication etc will be transferred to your registered practice within 2 working days of the consultation.

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:

If you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one, you can receive emergency treatment for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

To register as a temporary resident you will need to contact the surgery and complete and return this form

You can register as a temporary resident with a GP in England if you are in the area for longer than 24 hours, but less than three months.

For further information visit this site.