If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you may be able to receive emergency treatment from a local GP practice. Seeing a patient on a temporary basis will made on whether there is capacity at the GP practice you are trying to register with and on medical need which will be determined by a GP after a telephone triage consultation.
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 permanent patient with that practice.
To register as a temporary patient 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 if there is a medical need to do so. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.
Alternatively, you can attend the local Urgent Care Walk-In Centre, George Eliot Hospital, Eliot Way, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 7DJ, open 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week.