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Registering with the practice
The Glen Medical Practice covers Cumbernauld addresses in the G67 and G68 postal areas.
We have sites at Central Health Centre and Craigmarloch Medical Centre. Whilst we will always endeavour to offer appointments at the site of your choosing, please be aware that this may not always be possible and you might be required to attend either of our sites.
Anybody in Scotland can access primary care services at a GP practice without charge.
Please complete this Registration Form
Registering as a Temporary Resident
You can only register with a GP practice if you’re staying in the area for more than 3 months. If you’re not, you may still be treated but as a Temporary Resident.
You can also use the Access to Healthcare. This is a GP registration card to help you register with a GP Practice. The card gives information on your rights to accessing healthcare. You can find the card on the Health Literacy Place website.
For more information on being treated as a Temporary Resident please contact your nearest GP practice.
Accessing someone else’s information
As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else. We call this having proxy access or "consent to share".
To request proxy access, please collect a "consent to share" form at Reception from 9am to 5pm. *** Online form?? ***
Accountable GP
As a Practice we have always registered our patients with a named GP. This has been purely for administrative reasons - it reflects and balances the ratio of patients to GP based on the GPs’ working commitment.
While we encourage our patients to see the same GP if they have an on-going health problem, we do not operate a system of personal lists. We believe this can be restrictive as, in this situation, patients are usually only offered an appointment with the GP they are registered with.
Since 1 April 2015, GP Practices are required to assign a named accountable GP for their patients. Overall responsibility for patient care has not changed. e.g. if you normally see Dr X, we do not, from now on expect you to see Dr Y.
The purpose of this change is largely a role of oversight, with the requirements being introduced to reassure patients that they have one GP within the Practice who accepts responsibility for the coordination of all appropriate services in the Practice and ensure they are delivered to each of their patients where required (based on the clinical judgement of the named accountable GP).
- Patients do not need to see their named accountable GP when they book an appointment with the practice.
- Patients are entitled to choose to see any GP or nurse in the practice.
- Patients are entilted to choose any GP to coordinate delivery of appropriate services - this does not have to be the named accountable GP.
This does not mean that the named accountable GP will:
- take on vicarious responsibility for the work of other doctors or health professionals
- take on 24-hour responsibility for their patient, or have to change their working hours. The requirement does not imply personal availability for GPs throughout the working week
- be the only GP or clinician who will provide care for the patient.
Where the named accountable GP is unable to carry out their duties for a significant period, for example through maternity leave, a replacement accountable GP will be assigned until such times as their named accountable GP can recommence their duties. We would like to reassure our patients that although you may have a named accountable GP, you may continue to see the GP of your choice in the Practice. The exception to this will be for urgent same day appointments as these are booked with the Urgent Care Team.
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