NEW PATIENTS

Practice Leaflet

We continue to welcome new patients who live within our practice area as we maintain our patient list size noting that patients do move out of the areas, such as to university etc

Please contact the Patient Services team if you are unsure if you live within our practice boundaries and a member of our team will be able to help.

If you are unable to access and register online then a paper copy can be collected from the practice.

Please note; completion of the online consent form will allow you to have part access to your records until we receive your medical records and then you will have access as stated in the FAQ, please note this process may take a while, please be patient

The video found at the link below advises patients on how to register with the NHS App themselves without involving the practice:

Moving out of our Practice area

For patients who move into a property not far away from their previous address it may be possible to stay registered at Longton Health Centre under our out of area agreement and declaration

April 2025 Out of Area Scheme Policy & Declaration.docx

Click here to view a map of our catchment area and details of the "out of area" scheme.

Meeting the Initial Health Needs of people arriving in the UK from Ukraine

Bi-lingual patient health questionnaires have been developed with Doctors of the World UK for commissioners and GP practices to support this initial health assessment and management of newly registered vulnerable migrants, including people seeking asylum and those arriving under Government relocation schemes. Given the conflict in Ukraine, this includes English/Ukrainian and English/Russian translations provided.There is an adult version of the form and a version for children (age 0-15 years) which can be completed by the parent/guardian. We envisage that competent 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to complete the adult form for themselves.

Please click here for further information

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.

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