Join the surgery

If you would like to register as a patient, we have two methods:

1. Use the Register for a GP surgery service and then complete the New Patient Questionnaire
2. Contact the surgery to complete the necessary registration forms

If you wish to register using method ‘2.’ above, before contacting the surgery, firstly check our practice boundary to ensure that you live within our catchment area. If you don’t, please use the NHS’s Find a GP service to locate the nearest surgeries to your place of residence.

Following the processing of your registration, you will be contacted by the surgery to be offered a ‘New Patient Medical’ appointment, to discuss your medical circumstances, answer any questions or address any concerns you may have, and take your blood pressure if your medical circumstances require it.

If you specified you are taking taking medication on a regular basis (known as a ‘repeat prescription’) when using one of the above methods to register, you will be contacted by the surgery to make an appointment with a GP to have this medication added to your medical record here. Our GPs will be unable to prescribe this medication until you’ve had it added to your medical record, so we suggest obtaining at least one month’s medication from your current surgery, before registering as a patient with Bedworth Health Centre – ‘On-the-day’ and ‘Urgent’ appointments should not be booked if you have registered as a patient, and have not yet had your appointment to have your medication added to your medical record (in these circumstances, please call the surgery on 02476 315432 and select option 2 to speak to a Receptionist via our Prescriptions option, who will be able to help).

There are a number of different services that the surgery offer, one of the most useful is Online services. If you wish to manage your (or someone else’s) appointments (book, check, change, cancel), order prescriptions, and or view medical records online, please visit our Online Services page for more information.

As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else. We call this having proxy access. We can set this up for you if you are both registered with us.

To requests proxy access, please collect a proxy access form from reception from 9am to 5pm.

Linked profiles in your NHS account

From the 1st of April 2015, the practice is required under the terms of the latest GP contract to allocate all patients a named accountable GP.

This is purely an administrative exercise in order that patients can have a named responsible GP should they require them.

For convenience your named accountable GP is your usual GP.

If you wish to be told the name of your accountable GP, please ask the receptionists when you are next in the surgery.

Please note: there is no need to telephone the practice for this information.

If you need input from a variety of health professionals, then you can discuss these with the named GP if you wish. Alternatively you can discuss these with any of the other doctors.

Having a named GP does not prevent you seeing any other doctor in the practice. Your named GP will not be available at all times and if your needs are urgent, you may need to discuss them with an alternative doctor.