Please Note:  We are the Bishopton Medical Practice in Bishopton, Scotland.  If you are looking Bishopston Medical Practice in Bristol, England please click here

New Patient Registration

In order to register with the practice you must be intending to live in the area for longer than 3 months from the date of registration and live in PA7 postal code

You will be required to provide proof of address and photographic ID.

You will be offered a registration medical with with one of our nursing staff. We regard this as very important. Depending on your age you will be asked to complete a registration form and new patient information sheet to help us until we obtain your records from your previous doctor.

Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to complete these forms (or download them from the links below and complete them before attending).

In the event that you cannot attend your appointment and fail to cancel it you may not be able to register with us. 

Please be aware that when presenting these forms at reception, you will be required to provide identification which verifies your address in the PA7 area ie. Driving license, bank statement, utility bill etc.

Application to Register with a GP in Scotland

Patient questionaire 2020

Temporary Residents - If you are resident within the area for a period less than three months you may receive treatment as a temporary resident.

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

 

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

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home and need to see a GP you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice as a temporary resident (provided you are in the catchment area). 

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.

You will be asked to provide photographic ID.

Please note that if you are visiting from an EU country you must provide a valid European Health Insurance Card (E111).  If you cannot provide this or are visiting from a country outwith the EU you may be seen as a private patient which will incur fees.