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Online Registration

Click here to Register with our GP Practice Download New Patient Registration Form

Just fill in this quick online form, by clicking the above link to start the process. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number.

The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe.

Alternatively, you can download our forms (below) or visit the Practice to obtain a paper form from Reception.

Temporary Residents

Temporary Resident Guidelines

If you become unwell while away from home, you can receive emergency treatment from a local GP practice for up to 14 days. If you still need care after this period, you may be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months, after which you must either re‑register temporarily or register permanently.

Please note that temporary residents can only be treated for urgent or immediately necessary problems. Routine or ongoing care, including long‑term medication, must continue to be managed by your usual GP, who holds your full medical history and remains responsible for your ongoing healthcare.

To register as a temporary patient, please contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices are not obliged to accept temporary patients, although they must provide emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice located in the area where you are already registered.

If needed, you can download and complete the Temporary Services Form and submit it to any of our practice locations.

If your condition is not urgent, please advise the receptionist. In such cases, we may need to cancel the appointment to avoid disappointment if the GP is unable to provide the appropriate care under temporary registration rules.

University Students

While practices are not obliged to accept patients as a temporary, they do have a duty to provide emergency treatment.

We are unable to register university students as temporary patients unless it is for a genuine emergency. This is because temporary registration does not allow us to safely manage long‑term or ongoing medical needs. Your own GP practice holds your full medical history, prescribing record, and monitoring requirements, which are essential for ensuring your medications remain safe and appropriate. Without access to this information, it may not be clinically safe for us to issue repeat or long‑term prescriptions.

For this reason, if you are returning from university for the holidays, and need routine or ongoing medication, you will need to request this from your usual GP practice, who can provide continuity of care. For all long-term health matters and routine referrals, you should return to your usual GP practice or you may be asked to register with this practice as a full patient.

We can only offer temporary treatment in urgent situations where immediate care is required. Unfortunately, we are unable to manage ongoing conditions, initiate new investigations, or arrange outpatient referrals.

Care Home Residents / Respite Care

While practices are not obliged to accept patients as a temporary, they do have a duty to provide emergency treatment.

We are unable to register care home residents as temporary patients unless it is for a genuine emergency. This is because temporary registration does not allow us to safely manage long‑term or ongoing medical needs. Your own GP practice holds your full medical history, prescribing record, and monitoring requirements, which are essential for ensuring your medications remain safe and appropriate. Without access to this information, it may not be clinically safe for us to issue repeat or long‑term prescriptions.

For this reason, if you are staying in a care home for respite, and need routine or ongoing medication, you will need to request this from your usual GP practice, who can provide continuity of care. For all long-term health matters and routine referrals, you should return to your usual GP practice or you may be asked to register with this practice as a full patient.

Download a Temporary Services Form

Catchment Area (Practice Boundary)

We accept patients from Bishop’s Stortford and surrounding areas. All patients will be assigned to a GP upon registration. Patients can express a preference for which GP they are assigned to. You can search for your postcode by clicking the magnifier in the top right corner of the map, this will indicate whether you live within the boundary or not.

Named GP

Role of Named GP's

From 1^st April 2015 all practices in England are required under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract to allocate a named accountable GP to all patients, including children.

Prior to the contract change, all patients at Church Street Partnership were registered with a partner and had a ‘usual’ GP allocated, on a pro rata basis. This was an administrative exercise to allow for the equitable allocation of test results and letters that come into the practice. For the purposes of this contract change your ‘usual’ GP will become your named accountable GP.

The contract remains ‘practice based’, so overall responsibility for patient care and appointment booking systems have not changed. This is largely a role of oversight, with the requirements being introduced to reassure patients that there is a GP within the practice who is responsible for co-ordinating their care as required.

There is no requirement within the contract for patients to see their named GP and patients are free to see any GP at the practice, as they currently do.

What are the responsibilities of the named accountable GP?

The named accountable GP will take responsibility for the co-ordination of all appropriate services and ensure that they are delivered to each of their patients where required (based on the GP’s clinical judgment) to each of their patients.

The role of the named GP will not:

Take on vicarious responsibility for the work of other doctors or health professionals,
Take on 24-hour responsibility for the patient, or have to change their working hours,
Imply personal availability for GPs throughout the working week,
Be the only GP or clinician who will provide care to that patient.

If you would like to know who your named GP is, please ask when you next attend the surgery.

Please note that whenever a GP leaves or joins the partnership, the health authority reallocates the patient lists. It may be that your named GP will change under such circumstances. We are not able to contact patients individually about such changes, but we will publicise any partnership changes and advise patients wishing to know who their named GP is to ask at the surgery.

Information and guidance taken from the BMA website.

Accessing someone else's information

Medical records are confidential, so you can only access someone else’s record if you’re authorised to do so. If you wish to grant a person access to your records and/or collect results, discuss medication and to act on your behalf, please download and return a signed consent form to any of our GP branches. It is important that you understand the risks of granting access to others and that you are able to keep yourself and your information safe.

Download a Consent Form

Click here to find out how to access records as a Proxy