Registration Process

 

When registering, please bring your NHS Medical Card to the practice and those of any other persons registering with you. You will be asked to complete a Registration Form for each person registering with the Practice.


In addition, all patients will be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire, allowing us to provide medical care in the interim period, while your medical records are transferred from your old practice to this one.  A new patient registration appointment will be offered to you.

 



 Preference of Practitioner

 

Patients are registered with the practice, not an individual GP. For administrative reasons, your medical card will be issued in the name of the Practice, however, you can at any time express a preference for a particular doctor for either all of your medical needs or on a case-by case basis.


This preference will be recorded in your medical notes and we will do our best to respect your choice.  However, not all the doctors in the practice provide all services and specific doctors may not be immediately available.

 



 Services Available


All GP practices are contracted to provide "essential services", that is, basic treatment of ill people.  We also provide the following "additional services" :


  • Child Health Surveillance, together with the Health Visiting team
  • Contraceptive Services.  Specialist services such as IUCD insertion are available at the Family Planning Clinic in Johnstone Health Centre
  • Maternity Services in the ante-natal and post-natal period, together with the midwives from the Paisley Materntiy Hospital
  • Routine immunisations of children together with the Health Visiting team
  • Cervical Smears
  • Freezing of warts and other small skin lesions
  • Immunisations for adults in relation to travel. 

      - Not all travel immunisations are available on the NHS.

                   *Please ask our Practice Nurse for details.

  • Annual comprehensive reviews for patients with coronary heart disease, diabetes,hypertension, asthma, copd, epilepsy, mental health problems, stroke/tia

We also hold contracts with NHS Board Greater Glasgow for the following "enhanced services"

 

  • An annual flu immunisation programme to protect the elderly and at risk patients suffering from diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Regular monitoring, by blood and urine tests, for patients on a range of drugs for arthritis and bowel.

 


Practice Nursing Team

We now have three members of our Nursing Team who each carry out various clinical procedures.  If you are at all unsure whom you should be making an appointment with, please ask one of our Receptionists who will direct you to the correct Nurse.