Library House Surgery has an open list and accepts registrations from patients residing inside and outside of the pracitce boundary. If you live outside of the practice boundary, or Out of Area, it may impact on what services you can access and if you register, or remain registered with the surgery.
If you are a new patient, wishing to register and live outside of the practice area, please submit a registration in the usual way and our team will assess if it's clinically appropriate for you to join the practice.
If you are an exsisting patient, already residing Out Of Area, we regularly review our patient list to ensure we are meeting their needs. It may be you move house or there is a change in circumstances which may mean it is no longer clinically appropriate for you to remain on the practice list. At this point we will write to you expalining this and inviting you to register at a practice closer to hime.
For all Out of Area Pateints, you may on occasion, develop an urgent illness or injury at home that means attending the GP surgery as normal would not be appropriate. If you require a GP home visit, please contact the practice in the first instance. If we determine you need access to services local to where you live, we may ask you to call NHS 111. In these circumstances NHS 111 will direct you to a local service that has been established by NHS England for patients who do not live close to the practice they are registered with. This local service could be a GP practice near to where you live, the local walk-in or urgent care centre, A&E or minor injuries unit.
This local service will then decide if you can attend for an urgent face to face appointment with a healthcare professional or if a home visit is needed which will be based on your individual circumstances.
If this is in the out-of-hours period when GP surgeries are normally closed – between 6:30pm and 8:30am weekdays and during weekends – NHS 111 will direct, you to the local out-of-hours provider.
If you do decide to register with us, we will contact you and inform you of this information.
You can view the Practice Boundary online, by clicking here.
You can find out more information on the NHS England website, by clicking here.