Registrations for Patients Out of Area or of No Fixed Abode

New Registrations

All GP surgeries across the UK, agree their catchment area with their local ICB, which indicates how far they are able to provide safely home visits and urgent treatment for their patients.

We accept patients across Surrey. If you live outside of Guildford, you’ll register as an out-of-area-patient. 

Important (please read before registering):

• You can still access our same day webform appointment system
• Out-of-area patients cannot receive home visits from the practice
• You must be able to travel to the surgery for any face-to-face appointments
• Not recommended if you are housebound or have significant mobility issues

Existing Patients

We understand that some of our currently registered patients would like to remain registered with us due to familiarity and for continuity in their care. However patients who move out of our catchment area may have difficulty accessing other local services such as antenatal, maternity, social care and urgent care services. Additionally this can cause difficulties with referrals; there can be restrictions to how and where we can refer patients as some referrals are based on their address.

We are limited when it comes to referrals beyond our local area and this means that there may be times a referral will be rejected simply based on a patients’ home address which is out of our control.

Registrations for People Who Are Homeless

We will register patients who are homeless, vulnerably housed or ‘of no fixed abode’, if they are currently staying within our catchment area.

We can do this using a temporary address which may be a friend’s address or a day centre, or we can use the practice address. Patients of no fixed abode will not be required to provide proof of address or ID for this.

However we do ask patients who move to a temporary address outside of the practice’s area to re-register at a practice local to them so that they can access local support services, and we can help facilitate this.

Please see the following leaflet for further information: How to Register With A GP If You’re Homeless , or please do come in and ask a member of the Patient Services Team for assistance.