Aird Medical Practice - Information for new patients wishing to join the doctors surgery

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If you require urgent medical attention between 6pm and 8am or at the weekend, please contact the Out of Hours on 111.

COVID19 VACCINE

For information about the Coronavirus Vaccine, please visit https://www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine

Core message

The NHS is here for you, so don’t ignore the warning signs. You are not being a burden, you are looking after yourself and our NHS by doing so.

If you notice a deterioration in your health or someone in your household, call your GP in normal hours, 111 out of hours, or in any emergency dial 999.

Your community pharmacy and your GP are open, please contact them for advice or with concerns.

If you are concerned about a potential sign or symptom of cancer contact your GP practice to get checked.

If you have a regular appointment for a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes you should contact your GP and they will advise you. If your hospital appointment has not be cancelled you should still attend.

COVID-19 patients and those displaying symptoms are treated separately.

For further information visit www.nhsinform.scot

Ladies between the age of 16-64 can attend Boots Pharmacy in Beauly if they feel they have a urine infection and can be treated by the pharmacist.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies from 25th May 2018 : click on Practice Policies for more information.

Registration

Non-English Speakers

Temporary Residents

New Patient Registration

When you register with the practice you will be asked to fill out a registration form and you should make a new patient appointment with a doctor/practice nurse, so that a brief history of previous illness can be taken and routine tests can be carried out (blood pressure etc.).

Please contact Reception for registration forms. These require to be completed and handed in personally at the surgery. Please ensure you also have a form of ID with you, along with your CHI or NHS number.

Preference of Doctor

You can request to see any doctor in the practice; it may just mean a longer wait for an appointment.

Practice Area

We normally accept patients in and around Beauly, Kiltarlity, Kirkhill, Cannich, Strathglass, Strathfarrar and as far into Muir of Ord as the Railway bridge.

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.

pdf A Patient Guide to GP Services

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.