New Patient Registration
Catchment Area
You may register with Bath Row Medical Practice if you are permanently resident in one of the following postal areas: B1, B2, B3, B5, B12, B15 or B16. Permanent means that you are ordinarily living at the specified address and will be there for more than three months.
If you will be resident in the Practice area for less than three months you may still register but this can only be as a temporary patient. In these circumstances we will not have access to your previous medical records and you will remain registered with your home doctor.
If you are a foreign national, you may be entitled to NHS treatment. If you have a chronic condition and are ordinarily resident for less than six months you may have to pay for treatment. The Practice will advise you on your entitlement.
How to register
Please do not wait until you are ill to register as we cannot guarantee that an appointment will be available at that time.
NHS reforms aimed at improving patient care and service now require that every patient eligible for NHS care in the UK has a unique NHS number that identifies them. This means that when a patient registers with a GP, the national patient registration system must identify and match that patient with their unique NHS number. This can only be done if patients provide full and accurate information when they register with a GP.
To ensure that this matching process is quick and efficient, general practices are now required wherever possible to obtain proof of information provided by patients on their registration forms.
To register with us
We need you to complete a registration form fully and with as much detail as possible. Your registration is speeded up and guaranteed if you can show us:
- Proof of your identity (e.g. birth certificate, marriage certificate, passport, photographic driving licence etc)
- Proof of your address (e.g. utility bill information, mortgage confirmation, tenancy agreement, confirmation of tenancy from University)
- Your current NHS medical card (this will be retained and a new one will be sent to you by Birmingham Shared Services Agency)
We ask you to have your height, weight and blood pressure measured by our Health Care Assistant and to answer a few questions about your smoking habits.
If you are on regular medication or have any immediate health concerns we ask that you attend an appointment with one of our Practice Nurses. This is so that your medication can be checked and arrangements made for you to access repeat prescriptions, if applicable. An appointment will be made for you to see a doctor if the nurse considers it advisable.
Please note that NHS contractual changes may require us to ask additional patient profile information from you such as information about your ethnicity. You may decline to provide such information if you wish but the basic registration form must be completed in full.
If you cannot provide proof of your identity or address and/or you provide inaccurate or incomplete information on your registration form, your information may not be able to be matched on the national patient database. If this happens, the Shared Services Agency (SSA), who are responsible for patient registrations across all GP Practices in Birmingham, will contact you to confirm your details. If you cannot be contacted at the address you have indicated, the SSA will reject your registration. We will not then be able to accept you onto our Practice list for continued health care.
To help us to process your registration quickly and efficiently and to save waiting time, please do not come to the Practice to register during busy surgery hours. We are able to deal with registrations most efficiently between the hours of 8.00 am and 8.30 am, 11.00 am and 2.00 pm (11.00 am and 1.00pm on Wednesdays) or 5.30pm and 6.00pm.