If you wish to register at this practice please check our boundary area first:

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GP access cards – registering with a GP practice

A national campaign is launching to encourage people to register with a GP if they don’t have one.  NHS England and Improvement is aware that some people experience barriers when trying to register with a GP. Despite national restrictions put in place as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, it is still important to encourage GP registration within our communities, to ensure that everyone receives care and is prioritised for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Within the next few weeks, GP access cards will be distributed by Healthwatch and voluntary organisations to vulnerable communities who are less likely to be registered with a GP. The card, similar in look to a credit card, will be accompanied by a welcome to GP letter from Dr Raj Patel and will provide details of how to register.   The clear message is that people do not need to provide proof of ID, address or immigration status in order to be registered.

On the back of the card is the NHS England Customer Contact Centre number, for people to use if they have been refused registration.

Please complete all 3 forms for each person registering (downloadable versions are available from the menus below) - if forms are missing or not fully completed this may delay your registration with the surgery. Please complete forms in block capitals.

Please provide proof of address in the form of a utility bill or similar document, dated within the last 3 months for all patients registering who are over 16. However, please note, in line with NHS England guidance, if you do not have this information we can still register you here at the Surgery, but we strongly advise in this situation you inform us why you cannot provide this information.  

Your registration will be with the partnership. However, you have the right to express a preference for an individual GP. You may indicate this on the ‘application to join form’. However, please be aware that some of the GPs only work part time and not all of the GPs provide every service you may require. Your request, if made, will be entered onto the computer registration template as your preferred doctor.

For online access to request repeat prescriptions please use one of the following forms:

Adult Online Access Registration Form

Under 16 Online Access Registration Form

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

Disabled patient facilities are also available at this practice.

Level/sloped entrance, lift to upper floor.

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.