Register with us as a New Patient

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New Patient Registration

If you live within our practice area (a postal address of Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Humberston, Waltham, New Waltham or Scartho) you are welcome to register with us and our reception staff will be happy to guide you through the procedure. Eligibility can be quickly confirmed from your address so it would help if you could provide proof such as a recent utility bill.

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 Please allow seven days before contacting the surgery to check whether you have been accepted. 

Make sure you have fully completed the section about any current medication you take and try to get a month's supply from your current practice before registering with us to ensure a smooth transition.

Temporary Registration

We are always happy to see any relatives or friends staying with you if they need a doctor or nurse.  They will need to fill out a short form for the information to be returned to their own doctor.  Please arrive 10 minutes before your appointment to allow time for completion of the necessary forms.

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 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.

Download the Temporary Registration Form

Your Named GP

The surgery provides all patients with a named GP who will have overall responsibility for the care and support that our surgery provides to them.

We need to divide our patients evenly between all of our doctors, so they can manage their workload. Therefore to do this fairly and impartially, we have selected patients by surname to match to a doctor.

We know that some patients will wish their named GP to be a particular doctor. Where a patient expresses a preference as to which doctor they have been assigned, the practice will make reasonable efforts to accommodate this request, but we would like to reassure patients that this system does not prevent you from seeing any GP in the practice as you currently do. Your named GP will not be available at all times.

You do not need to take any further action and will be informed of your named GP in due course. In the meantime, if you wish to be told the name of your accountable GP, please ask the receptionists when you are next in the surgery.