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Catchment area

Before filling out a registration form, check you are in our catchment area.

Find out with GPs you can register with on the NHS website.

To register with the surgery please visit reception during our opening times and collect a paper registration form.

When you register, it’s helpful to have your NHS number. You can use the NHS website to find your NHS number.

Out of area registration scheme

There is no obligation for practices to participate in this scheme, this scheme offers patients out of the practice boundary area to register with them, providing alternative arrangements for patients who require a home visit and urgent treatment.

The Sherburn & Rillington Practice is not participating in this scheme – there are no services known to the practice to provide patients with home visits or urgent care.

If you are currently a patient and you move out of our area you will be asked to re-register with a local GP practice.  This ensures your care and any community-based services are available to you locally.

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 1st April 2015, practices are required to allocate all patients (including children) with a named accountable GP.

The named GP is responsible for the coordination and delivery of all appropriate services, where required based on clinical judgement, to each of their patients.

• Patients do not need to see their named GP when they book an appointment with the practice.
• Patients are entitled to choose to see any GP or nurse in the practice.

Removal from the practice list

A good patient-doctor relationship, based on mutual respect and trust, is the cornerstone of good patient care. The removal of patients from our list is an exceptional and rare event and is a last resort in an impaired patient-practice relationship. When trust has irretrievably broken down, it is in the patient’s interest, just as much as that of the practice, that they should find a new practice. An exception to this is on immediate removal on the grounds of violence e.g. when the Police are involved.

Removing other members of the household

In rare cases, however, because of the possible need to visit patients at home it may be necessary to terminate responsibility for other members of the family or the entire household. The prospect of visiting patients where a relative who is no longer a patient of the practice by virtue of their unacceptable behaviour resides, or being regularly confronted by the removed patient, may make it too difficult for the practice to continue to look after the whole family. This is particularly likely where the patient has been removed because of violence or threatening behaviour and keeping the other family members could put doctors or their staff at risk.

If you are in the area for a short time and require urgent medical treatment you are able to register with this practice as a temporary resident. This gives you almost the same access to general medical services as registered patients but only for a period up to three months. If you are going to be in the area for longer than three months you should register fully with a GP. 

If you are registered with another practice locally it is essential that you to attend your own practice where your medical notes are available.

If you are staying in the area and you have forgotten your repeat medication you can request your home GP practice to send your prescription electronically to a local pharmacy for collection. 

Please note, as a temporary patients you will not be eligible for Travel Vaccinations. This service can be provided by private travel clinics or by your registered GP Practice.

To register with the surgery as a temporary resident please visit reception during our opening times and collect a paper temporary registration form.