New Patients

How to Register

You can register by completing a registration form which can be obtained from the practice. As part of our registration process you are required to attend a short medical with our healthcare assistant within one month of requesting registration. You will not be registered with the practice until you have attended for this medical. This will make sure that our records are accurate and all routine checks to promote your health and wellbeing (such as blood pressure/smear tests/mammograms) are up-to-date.

If you need an appointment whilst waiting to attend your medical you can be seen for one appointment only or request one prescription as a non-registered patient.

This medical is not necessary for children under five years of age.

To register you will need to bring a photo ID such as your passport or driving license and proof of address such as a recent utility bill.

You do not need to inform your existing practice that you are moving, although it may be courteous to do so.

Areas covered by the Practice

We can only accept new patients who live in our practice area. The following towns and villages fall within the inner boundary of the practice area for the purposes of registration:

• Ampthill
• Clophill (not beyond Beadlow Manor)
• Eversholt 
• Flitton
• Flitwick
• Greenfield
• Harlington
• Haynes (west of the A6) 
• Houghton Conquest
• Lidlington
• Maulden
• Millbrook
• Pulloxhill
• Silsoe
• Steppingley
• Tingrith
• Westoning

Patients who move from within the inner boundary to Stewartby may remain registered with the Practice if they so wish, however we regret that we cannot accept new patient registrations from Stewartby.

Practice Boundary Map

Patient Choice Scheme

Under a new pilot scheme, instead of registering with Flitwick Surgery, patients are now able to register with participating practices in the Central London area.  This covers City and Hackney Teaching PCT, Tower Hamlets PCT and Westminster PCT. (Additional areas where the pilot is taking place are Nottingham PCT, Manchester Teaching PCT and Salford PCT.)  The aim is to assist those people who are away from their local practice area during the day, such as commuters, who would like to have their routine care needs met close to their place of work. 

Flitwick Surgery will still offer urgent and local care as follows:

• Access to GP services for patients who fall ill at home during the weekday daytime in hours period (8.00am to 6.30pm; Monday to Friday) or who are recovering at home after a period of hospitalisation; and
• Home visits (where deemed clinically necessary).

The Practice would NOT responsible for the provision of primary medical services to you and would refuse all requests for routine, ongoing care, referrals, medication reviews etc.  These will all be the responsibility of the practice with which you are registered.