New Patients

Catchment area

Before filling out a registration form, check you are in our catchment area. Put your postcode in Google Earth and check it's in one of our 2 red catchment areas. 

Registering with the surgery

To register with the surgery:

FOR UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE

• fill out an online registration form
• visit reception and collect a paper registration form
• via the NHS App

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

FOR ECCLESALL MEDICAL CENTRE

• visit reception and collect a paper registration form
• coming soon via online registration form and NHS app

If you are unsure whether your address is within our boundary please check by entering your postcode in the box above.

If you live outside of our boundary but wish to register, as of 1st January 2022 we will no longer be accepting registrations for patients who live outside the marked area.  This also includes patients who currently are on the 'Out of Area' scheme and move to another address which is still outside our boundary. 

This also includes patients returning home after studying and living away at university, they will now have to be seen at a practice nearer their location.

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.

All patients at Upperthorpe & Ecclesall Medical Centre have a named, accountable doctor who is responsible for coordinating their care.

Your named doctor will be allocated to you by the practice. You can still talk to or make appointments to see any of our doctors or nurses, not just your named GP.

If you have a preference and would like to request a particular doctor at the practice to be your named GP please talk to one of our receptionists.

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	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French