New Patients

Practice area

We accept registrations from patients living in:

Yarm, Eaglescliffe, Egglescliffe, Worsall, Kirklevington, Aislaby, Picton, Hilton, Crathorne, High Leven, Maltby, and Ingleby Barwick (Roundhill, Beckfields and Sober Hall only).

Eligibility is confirmed using your address.

Out-of-area registrations

You can choose to register with Yarm Medical Practice even if you live outside our practice area, in line with NHS England guidance.

If you live outside our practice area, we cannot provide home visits. If a home visit is clinically necessary, this will be arranged by NHS services local to your home address.

Please note that home visits are generally only required for patients who are housebound and unable to attend the surgery due to a medical condition. Most patients do not require home visits and are able to access care at the practice or by telephone or online consultation.

If you are unsure whether out-of-area registration is suitable for you, please contact reception before registering and we will be happy to advise.

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.

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:

Leaflets to read in conjunction with Sharing of information:

How information about you helps us to provide better care

Summary Care Record

Your electronic patient record & the sharing of information