New Patients
Register as a New Patient
If you wish to register at this practice please check our boundary area first:
For accessible information please click here
You are now able to register with Bridge Cottage Surgery online using the link below. This should speed up the registration process and ensure that all necessary information is received for us to provide you with care.
Please register online here
Temporary Patient 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 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.
Please fully complete a temporary services form, which can be found here
Hand in completed forms to reception or email it to us at general.bridgecottagesurgery@nhs.net
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:
Disabled Patient Facilities
Disabled patient facilities are also available at this practice.
Level/sloped entrance, lift to upper floor.
Getting Here
Travelling by car
Coming North from London – take Junction 6, but be careful as there is no junction 5 northbound. Junction 6 is sign posted as A1000. From the slip road, you will come to a roundabout. Take the first exit on your left. Go along here for about 200 yards and you will see a BP Petrol station on your right. Turn right immediately after the petrol station and go down behind it. This is called London Road. This road leads into Welwyn. Coming down the hill, you will see a pub called The Steamer on your right, and as you come into the village, a pub called the White Hart will appear almost in front of you. You will see a small bridge. The surgery is on the left here. There is a public car park on the right.
Coming South from Stevenage – Take Junction 6. Down the slip road, get into the right hand lane ready for the roundabout (which can be very busy). Take the 3rd turning, which immediately goes under a large bridge. The road offers two routes, take the left route signed to Welwyn. This road will take you past a fire station and a Civic Centre and library on your right. The road veers to the left and you will come to a T-junction. Turn right and you are in Welwyn. Bridge Cottage Surgery is on your left and there is a public car-park on your right.
Instructions from Hertford – Come along the B1000, to Digswell. Keep on this road until you come to a main roundabout. Go straight over (sign posted to Welwyn and the A1). You will now be on dual carriage way until another roundabout. Go straight over this one. This road immediately goes under a large bridge. The road offers two routes, take the left route signed to Welwyn. This road will take you past a fire station and a Civic Centre and library on your right. The road veers to the left and you will come to a T-junction. Turn right and you are in Welwyn. Bridge Cottage Surgery is on your left and there is a public car-park on your right.