To ask if dd could stay with the gp surgery she’s with

[Cleanbreak67]

Dd is university student who’s come home for the summer. Still registered with the GP where her university is. We live about 40 minutes away. She will need to update her address with theGP as her prescriptions will need to have our address on as that’s where her benefit claim is now registered. She will be back late august to her student town.

[Cleanbreak67]

She’s got an telephone appointment early next month with the GP for another issue so she plans to speak to him about it.

[RizzleRazzle]

Could she not ring reception to ask?

I worked in a GP in a university town and students often registered temporarily as patients when they went home then moved back to our GP again when they came back

[Cleanbreak67]

The receptionist told her she couldn’t answer that question.

[PassGo]

Yes, phone reception rather than talk to the GP about it in the first instance.

[PassGo]

Oh, cross-post. That's strange that they won't answer, I wonder why?

[PinkiOcelot]

When I worked in a GP surgery years ago, you had to be registered with a GP within a certain number of miles due to if you needed an urgent house call and the GP had to come out.
However, these days you can’t even get an appointment never mind a house call, so that shouldn’t even apply.

[sparemonitor]

It's usual for uni students to register at their uni practice and use the home GP practice as a temporary resident in the holidays. If they didn't do this then university practices would have no registered patients and would be financially unviable.

[sparemonitor]

so the GP should be able to issue her a script with your home address on

[Cleanbreak67]

This is just a normal GP practice not a university one so not sure if the rules are different.

[MissAmandaLa1kes]

Depending on the medication, the university go can issue sufficient medications for her whilst at your address.repeat dispensing, could even arrange for pxs to be sent electronically to a local pharmacy, depending on which of the home countries she is in.

[Cleanbreak67]

Thank you everyone. She’s only allowed two weekly prescriptions do to her risk so I don’t think the GP will issue a long term script.

[RealMermaid]

She should be able to temporarily register at one, I had to do that once when i went to stay with my parents after major surgery.

[Thegoodandbadlife]

What I do is if I need a prescription is ask if they can send it to x pharmacy instead of the one near my Uni GP practice. That was you don’t have to bother registering and registering as a temp patient. Only time I’ve registered at a temp was when I actually needed a GP appointment. If she’s able to also order the prescription through patient access you just change the nominated pharmacy which again is really simple.

[Cleanbreak67]

Thegoodandbadlife Thank you for advice. Do you update your address to your home address? As obviously are home address is out of their catchment

[recededpronunciation]

When eldest is home we just ask for prescriptions to be sent to our nearest pharmacy. They still have her term time address on them, it’s very straight forward.

[Cleanbreak67]

She won’t ever be going back to this address as she’s got new accommodation for September.

[Wilkolampshade]

We've had this.
To see a doctor just register as a temporary resident with your nearest GP.
If it's just prescriptions your needing then as @recededpronunciation says, her regular GP can send them through to your local pharmacy. The receptionist at her normal GP can do this, just give them a call.

[recededpronunciation]

It doesn’t matter if she’s not going back that address - my daughter updates her address in October when the new academic year starts. All that really matters is she can tell the pharmacist the address that’s on the prescription when she picks it up.

[Thegoodandbadlife]

I don’t update my home address - just when I speak to the doctor I say the address of the pharmacy I wan the prescription sent to and on collection of the medication the adress I give is my Uni one.