Temporary New Patient Registration Process During Covid-19 Emergency

During the Covid-19 emergency the Sussex Clinical Commissioning Groups have amended local guidance to support the registration of new patients during the current crisis. 

To avoid unnecessary access to The Avenue Surgery premises without a pre-assessed clinical need, patients who have recently moved into the areas should now complete the GMS1 online Registration Form (see link below) which will allow you to submit your application direct to The Avenue Surgery. 

Please allow up to 7 days for your application to be processed.  Only apply once.

GMS1 Click this link New Patient Pre-registration Form GMS1 

Please note: The surgery covers Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Coldean, Falmer, Hollingdean and the area of Brighton north of Elm Grove (click here for indicative Practice boundary). You may register with the Practice only if you live within these areas.

If you are not moving house outside the boundary of your current practice you are advised to remain temporarily registered with your current practice to ensure that you can continue to receive care from a healthcare professional who has immediate access to your full medical records.

We will contact you when normal service is resumed and ask you to present your ID, sign the GMS1 form and complete The Avenue Surgery’s own New Patient Registration Questionnaire.

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

See NHS Digital's website for details of Summary Care Record  https://digital.nhs.uk/services/summary-care-records-scr/summary-care-records-scr-information-for-patients

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them.  You can download the guide below.

A Patient Guide to GP Services

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.

Download the Temporary Resident Registration Form

The Avenue Surgery, in line with other healthcare providers and other statutory services such as local authorities, now collect information about the ethnic group of patients.  This information will help us learn more about patients' needs and allow us to plan services to meet the health needs of the entire community and ensure that everyone has access to healthcare services which meet their needs.

We are not asking about citizenship of nationality, but about the ethnic group to which you feel you belong.  This list is designed to allow most people to identify themselves, however if you feel the categories do not describe your ethnic group please enter "other ethnic group" at the bottom of the form and provide details of how you would describe yourself.

Please click here Ethnicity Monitoring Form and when you have completed the form simply email it to The Avenue Surgery:

BHCCG.TheAvenueSurgeryBrighton@nhs.net

With many thanks.