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Non-urgent advice: New Patient Registration
We are using a new online service called Register with a GP surgery that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery.
Just fill in this quick online form to start the process. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.
The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe. It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register.
A paper form is still available if you need one.
Practice Boundary
The practice boundary’s purpose is to facilitate visits to your home if you are ill.
If you move out of the Lensfield Medical Practice catchment area we ask you to register with a GP in the locality of your new home. It is deemed to be clinically safer to be registered with a local GP as many of the support services would not be available.
We are currently unable to support out of area patients, thank you for your understanding.
Practice Boundary
Step 2
Patient registered with Lensfield Medical Practice
Step 3
Patient notified
Step 4
If you are taking medication you will be sent a medication questionnaire
Additional Step
You may require a Clinical pharmacist phone review
Final Step
Medication now available to order
Named GP
From the 1st April 2015, practices are required to allocate a named GP to all patients (including children).
All our patients have been allocated a named GP and many patients will already have been informed of theirs. However, if you do not know who your allocated GP is - please ask at reception when you next visit us to find out. If you would like to be allocated to another GP please ask at reception for the 'Named GP' form.
Your named GP will not always be available but we will continue to work as a team at the practice, and that will always be the case, so you may see any of the GPs who are available.
New to the UK or no NHS number?
If you have never been registered in the UK before you will not have an NHS number. In which case we will need the date you first arrived in this country, and details of your current address and any previous UK addresses.
It is important to realise that if you register with us but do not live locally, we will be unlikely to be able to visit if you deem that necessary. In these occasions we recommend that you call 111 who will advise you of the most appropriate route of care for your needs. Please remember, however that if you feel that you have a medical emergency, you can always call 999 for assistance.
Temporary Registrations
Telephone 01223 651020 to check availability.
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. To register please fill out a paper form available from the practice and choose a pharmacy (see pharmacy list above) to pick up your prescription form.
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.
Non English Speakers
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:
Students
University Students Welcome
An integral part of Lensfield Medical Practice is looking after students from all Cambridge University colleges and also Anglia Ruskin University. If you are looking for a centrally based Cambridge GP surgery then look no further.
We realise that the needs of students are unique and we aim to cater for this:
- Remote consultations via email and telephone.
- We are often able to deal with minor ailments and prescription queries in this manor without the need for you to register as a temporary student when you are at your home (Non term-time) address.
- Mental health problems.
- Stress and anxiety
- Depression
- Drug dependence
- Sexual health screening and diagnosis
- Contraception
- NHS Smear tests
- Musculoskeletal problems and sports related injuries.
NHS Physiotherapy Self-Referral
NHS Counselling/CBT Self-Referral
Sexual Health Clinic Self-Referral
Registration Guide
If, like most students, you spend more weeks of the year at your college address than your family's address, you need to register with a GP near your college as soon as possible.
That way you can receive emergency care if you need it, and access health services quickly and easily while you're at college.
This is especially important if you have an ongoing health condition, particularly one that needs medication, such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
Accessing someone else’s information
As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else. We call this having proxy access. We can set this up for you if you are both registered with us.
To requests proxy access:
- collect a proxy access form from reception