REGISTER AS A PATIENT WITH ROSSENDALE VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE:

Register with a GP surgery (gp-registration.nhs.uk)

The practice can only refuse your application if it has fair and reasonable grounds to do so or you live outside the practice area.

Dr Ibrahim’s Surgery works hard to ensure that we offer equal access to Health Care for people who wish to join the Practice.  We are determined to ensure that we do not discriminate in any way against race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.  At Dr Ibrahim’s we value the richness that diversity brings among our patients and also our staff.

Rossendale Valley Medical Practice

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 permanent patient.

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:

English	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French

Find out about conditions, symptoms, medicines, tests and treatments, including what to do and when to get help.