Crown Street Surgery also gives the option to register for people who are not living within our practice catchment area.
Out of area registration is voluntary for GP practices and it is important to note that by registering with Crown Street Surgery as an out of area patient, requests for home visits are provided by the NHS services near to where an individual lives and would be accessed through ringing NHS 111. Crown Street Surgery is not obliged to provide home visits to out of area patients.
If the practice has no capacity at the time, or feels it is not clinically appropriate or practical for you to be registered so far away from home, then we can still refuse registration. The practice will explain their reason for refusing your registration to you.
The practice GP partners will decide, following a review of your completed registration form, whether to accept you onto our registered list without home visiting duties (if it is clinically appropriate and practical for you to be registered away from home). This decision can take up to 7/10 days to be made.
You may be asked to reregister with a local GP at any time in the future should your personal circumstances change and it is no longer clinically appropriate or practical for you to be registered at Crown Street Surgery.
Because of the greater distance to your home if you are too ill to attend the practice in person, or the practice is unable to help you over the phone, call NHS 111. The NHS 111 service will be able to tell you about access to local services or, where necessary, arrange a home visit.
Registering with a practice further away from home can affect decisions about referrals for hospital tests and treatment, or access to community health services. Speak to the GP about your options.