New Patient Registration

If you are resident within our practice area (please see above) and would like to register with the practice, please speak to one of our receptionists who will explain the procedure and help with the completion of the registration form. You will also be asked to complete a questionnaire in order to ensure that our computer holds an accurate record of your past medical history. Both forms are available on the above “Registering Online” tab.

If you wish, you can opt to have a new patient health check with the healthcare assistant: please ask reception.

Patients need to inform the practice of any change in personal details e.g. telephone number, address or surname. Confidentiality will remain of prime concern.

Please note that the practice does not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation or appearance, disability or medical condition.

Registered patients who subsequently move out of our practice area will be required to sign up to an alternative GP surgery.

Patient Preference of Practitioner

Patients are registered with the practice, not an individual GP. For administrative reasons your medical card will be issued in the name of one of the doctors; however, you can at any time express a preference for a particular doctor, for either all of your medical needs or on a case by case basis. That said, not all the doctors in the practice provide all services and specific doctors may not be immediately available.

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

Practice Area

How to Find Us

Directions to Lache Health Centre:

From City Centre and Wrexham Road:

Take Lache exit on Overleigh roundabout onto Lache Lane.

After approximately 700m, turn right into Clifford Drive, 1st right into Oldfield Crescent, 2nd right into Hawthorn Road.

The practice is situated at the rear of the Community Centre building which is 300m on your right.

From Saltney:

Head towards Chester, at the traffic lights turn right into Cliveden Road.

500m on your left turn left into Downsfield Road, follow the road round into Hawthorn Road.

The practice is situated at the rear of the Community Centre building which is 100m on your left.

Online 'Pre-Registration' With The Practice

If you wish to pre-register click on the link below to open the form. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. When you visit the surgery for the first time you will be asked to sign the form to confirm that the details are correct.

Pre-registration Form

When you register you will also be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. There is an online version of this file too, which you may fill out and send to us. When you come to the surgery you will be asked to sign this form to confirm that the details are correct.

Online Medical Questionnaire For New Patients

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

Alternatively you may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you on your first visit to the practice.

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

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