New Patient Registration

The doctors welcome new patients who live within our practice area.

The partnership of Drs Machen, Fraser, Cruickshank, Vorster, Barratt, Davies, Sinclair and Purohit is contracted to provide general medical services to patients registered with our practice and temporary residents within our practice boundary. We also provide immediately necessary treatment for any person not registered with the practice who has an urgent medical problem within our practice boundary.

We cover Hitchin and a wide area of surrounding villages primarily to the south and west. These are Charlton, Gosmore, Holwell, Ickleford, Offley, Pirton, Preston and St Ippolyts. (please see map on display at the surgery).

We do not accept applications from patients living in any other villages including Codicote, Whitwell, Kings Walden, Little Wymondley, Lilley, Shillington, Barton or any other village over the Bedfordshire border

Please contact reception for further information.

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

Once you have filled out and submitted the Pre-registration form above please could you then fill out the online medical questionnaire by clicking on the link below. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. Once this process has been complete please allow five working days for us to process your registration. You will then need to contact us within 2 weeks of submitting your forms to arrange a new patient health check. When you come to the surgery for this appointment you will then be asked to sign both forms to confirm that the details are correct as well as provide us with the identification you outlined when submitting these forms.

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

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