Grantown on Spey Medical Practice - Information for new patients wishing to join the doctors surgery

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FLU VACCINATIONS 2018

We would like to advise our patients of the situation this year with FLU VACCINATIONS.

All our vaccinations are being supplied in batches and we are unlikely to have the numbers we need until the end of October. Because of this we have been unable to fix a date for our flu clinic, but we expect it to be early in November.

For this reason you will not receive your Flu Invite letter until late October, so we would ask that you did not phone the surgery in the meantime as we will be unable to give you a date for the flu clinic until it becomes clearer when our vaccinations will arrive.

Thank you for your patience.

The Doctors at Grantown Medical Practice

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Training Afternoons

We are closed from 1pm on the dates below for Staff Training. Patients requiring medical help should contact NHS 24 on their national number - 111.

Wednesday 14th November 2018

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Patient Registration

Non-English Speakers

Temporary Residents

HOW TO REGISTER WITH THE PRACTICE

When you register with the practice you will be asked to fill out a registration form and you will be given a new patient appointment with one of the nursing team, so that a brief history of previous illnesses can be taken and routine tests can be carried out - blood pressure etc. This enables us to get some basic details about your health as it can take some time for the records to be sent to us from your previous Practice, particularly if this was outside of Scotland.

If you are on repeat medication or think you need a referral, please tell the Receptionist so that a GP appointment can be arranged. You need to see a GP to get your repeat prescriptions set up on our system.

You can download a Patient Registration Form by clicking on the link below.

Patient Registration Form

PREFERENCE OF DOCTOR AND HOW YOU CAN ACCESS THIS

You will not be registered with any one particular doctor but you can request to see a particular doctor if you so wish, it may just mean a longer wait for an appointment. The practice has achieved Practice Accreditation and has been accredited as a Training Practice.

PRACTICE AREA

This covers the area around Grantown-on-Spey, including the villages of Dulnain Bridge, Nethybridge, Boat of Garten, Carr-bridge, Cromdale and Advie. The Practice population is around 5,200 patients.

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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
Farsi

Temporary Registration

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.

pdf Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form