New Patient Registration

Chelmer Medical Partnership welcomes new patients who live within our catchment area. If you are unsure whether you live in our catchment area please check the practice catchment map.

To register, please complete the below registration form or collected a form from the practice to complete.

Please note registrations can take up to 4 weeks to complete. You will not receive a confirmation of registration. 

If you wish to register online services, please present in person at the practice with photographic ID e.g. Passport, driving licence etc.

13-15 year olds cannot have online access at Chelmer Medical Partnership.

If your child is under the age of 6, please could you also bring along their red book. 

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.

Fact sheets have been provided 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:

We are required by the Government under the terms of the GP contract to allocate all our patients a named accountable GP.

If you wish to know who your named accountable GP is, please ask at reception when you are next in the surgery – you don’t need to make a special trip.

If you want to express a preference as to which named GP you have been assigned we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate this request although it will not make any material difference to your everyday care or your interactions with the surgery.

Having a named accountable GP does not prevent you seeing any other doctor in the practice.

Your named accountable GP will not be available at all times and if your needs are urgent you may need to discuss them with any available doctor as our practice takes responsibility for your care as a whole and our computer clinical system holds your up-to-date medical record that can be viewed by all our doctors and nurses whenever you consult them.