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New Patient Registration
If you would like to use the medical services at The Riverside Practice, please register your whole household with the practice.
All new patients are offered an appointment for a health check with the practice nurse.
How to Register
Check you live within the boundary area
This is mainly in selected roads in Upper Clapton E5.
Although you can register if you live outside the catchment area, we would strongly advise that you register with a GP closer to where you live to ensure best care. For example, if you become housebound, we will not be able to visit you at home if you live outside the practice area.
Enter your post code to check you live within the practice boundary area.
Complete a New Patient Registration Form
Just moved to the area?
Simply visit the NHS website, choose us as your practice and fill in the health questionnaire.
You can register either yourself or on behalf of a dependent, such as your child.
When you register, it's helpful to have your NHS number. You can use the NHS website to find your NHS number.
Temporary Services
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 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.
Named Accountable GP
From the 1st April 2015 every practice is required to allocate an accountable GP to all patients including children under contract with NHS England. Your usual doctor in the contract is referred to as "your named accountable GP". The role of the named GP is to take responsibility for the co-ordination of all appropriate services and ensure they are delivered where required (based on the named GP's clinical judgement) to each of their patients. The named GP will deal with all correspondence received from hospitals and other organisations regarding your care, and will review any repeat medication you have. Having a "named GP" does not mean that this is the only doctor or clinician at the practice who will provide you with care. If you need to be seen urgently this may be with any of the doctors working that day.
Your named GP is Dr R Goel.
If you have a preference for your named GP please let us know and we will make every effort to accommodate this request.