New Patient Registration

You are welcome to register with the practice if you live within the practice area.

The Area We Cover

Our main surgery is situated in Fowey, with two branch surgeries, at Par Health Centre and on Polruan Quay.

Our practice boundary stretches from Tregrehan on the west to Lanteglos on the east side of the River Fowey, and north as far as St. Blazey.

If you move out of our practice area you should register with a practice local to your new address.

Register

We welcome new patients, residing in our catchment area, to register you need to either collect, or print and complete a New Patient (GMS1 form) and a New Patient Questionnaire (which are both downloadable via the links below) and return to the surgery.  If you have the following available, photographic ID (ie passport or driving licence) and evidence of your address that would be very helpful.

Download a New Patient Registration form HERE

Download a New Patient Questionnaire HERE

If you have your current medical card you should bring it with you. If you are unable to find it the reception staff will be able to provide alternative forms.

Practice Facilities

For the disabled

Fowey Surgery and Par Health Centre are easily accessible by people in wheelchairs. Polruan Surgery has quite a narrow entrance with one small step.

Other help

Hearing loops are fitted in Fowey and Par reception offices.

The Practice also has access to a translation/interpreter service.

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

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

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