Werrington Village Surgery - Information for new patients wishing to join the doctors surgery

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Werrington Village Surgery welcome Dr Gonugunta . Dr Gonugunta is a qualified Doctor having previously worked at the Royal Stoke Hospital, she is undertaking additional training to specialise in General Practice.

All our patients have a named accountable GP. If you would like to confirm the name of your accountable GP please contact reception

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Registration

Non-English Speakers

Temporary Patients

New Patient Registration

Anyone living in the practice area is welcome to register. A map of the catchment area is available on request. You will be asked to: Complete a registration form (FP1) You will be given an appointment with one of the healthcare assistants for a health check – please ask for a bottle to bring a urine sample with you. You may be invited to make an appointment with one of the doctors or practice pharmacist if you are on regular medication.

The practice may feel that it has justifiable reason to refuse an application for registration under the guidelines laid down in the GMS2 contract. In these circumstances written explanation of the reasons for refusal will be forwarded to the person concerned.

Practice Catchment Area

Our catchment area covers patients in the following areas, please enquire at reception for our boundaries, as not all of the town listed may be included:-

Werrington
Cellarhead
Wetley Rocks
Cheddleton
Bucknall
Abbey Hulton
Weston Coyney
Parkhall
Light Oaks
Bagnall
Consall
Caverswall

Non-English Speakers

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 or Emergency Residents

If you are registered with a doctor in another part of the UK but are staying with someone in our practice area you may be seen on a temporary or emergency basis.