New Patients

New Patients

If you live within our practice area you may register with the practice. To register you will need to call into the Health Centre and complete the necessary forms. It is helpful if you can bring your medical card, showing your previous doctors details and your NHS number with you. If you are unable to attend in person please write to the practice enclosing an s.a.e. and we will forward the necessary form to you. Please remember to tell us how many people in your family wish to register and if any of them are children.

When you register with the Practice you may wish to express a preference with regard to the GP you wish to see regularly. We will make a note of your preference and endeavour to comply, but may not always be able to do so. All new patients will be offered a health check when they join the Practice. The Practice accepts applications from all patients to join the Practice regardless of race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.

Areas covered by the Practice

We accept New Patients from the following areas:

• Aston
• Brize Norton
• Cogges
• Cote
• Crawley
• Ducklington
• East End / North Leigh
• Hailey
• Hardwick
• Lew
• Minster Lovell
• Northleigh
• Northmoor
• Poffley End
• Ramsden
• Ramsden Heath
• South Leigh
• Standlake
• Stanton Harcourt
• Wilcote
• Witney
• Yelford

New Patients - Locations Outside our Area

If you are moving outside our area

GPs work together with District Nurses, Community Mental Care Nurses, and Terminal Care Nurses. For this reason we need to be strict about the area covered.

We cannot, therefore, take on new patients, or retain existing patients, outside our stated area. If you move, even slightly outside our area, you must register with a practice in your new catchment area.

We cannot take patients from the following areas:

• Asthal
• Bablockhythe
• Carterton
• Fields Assarts
• Finstock
• Fordswell
• Freeland
• Leafield
• Southfield
• Stonesfield
• Sutton

Overseas Visitors

An overseas visitor is someone not "ordinarily resident" in the UK, i.e. someone who is a short-term visitor, and whose remaining period of stay does not exceed 6 months.

We follow government guidelines for overseas visitors who will be charged as per the rate displayed in reception for private consultations.

These rules are rather complex, although a lot more lenient than many other countries. If in any doubt, expect to be charged.
In the main, to get FREE NHS treatment you need to fulfil one of the following criteria:

• have a life/death, emergency that was not due to a pre-existing condition,
• be ordinarily and legally resident (usually this means you've  been in the UK, working legally (with a visa) for more than 6 months)