NEW PATIENT REGISTRATIONS

The practice books are open and accepting new patients. Please fill in a registration form and hand this in to the surgery, or collect one from reception.

Our boundary area is:

• Bainsford
• New Carron
• Glen Village
• Tamfourhill
• Camelon
• Hallglen
• Central Falkirk

Up to boundary of the Carron River on north side to the western edge of Camelon and Carmuirs, on the western side Tamfourhill, Falkirk, Hallglen & Glen Village, on the south side and the eastern edge of the Bog Middlefield and Bainsford.

GUIDE TO GP SERVICES

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them.  You can download the guide below.

A Patient Guide to GP Services

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

English	Urdu
Albanian	Hindi
Arabic	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Spanish
Russian	French
Turkish	Punjabi
Gujerati	Somali
Croatian	Bengali
Farsi

TEMPORARY REGISTRATIONS

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can register as a Temporary Resident.

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.

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.

Please note you do currently need to be within the practice boundary to register as a temporary resident.