To think a GP surgery shouldn’t have patients who are out of catchment

[Angryparent78]

If they are saying they can’t register patients who do live in the catchment. Just seen a post from a woman who lives at least four miles away from this particular surgery definitely isn’t in the catchment as stated by herself but has been told she can stay as long as I quote “numbers don’t get too high” now surely if they can’t take patients in the catchment numbers are already high and catchment patients should be their priority.

@Angryparent78

They can get into them though these a number of them right near where this woman lives. She’s choosing not as that surgery the one in my catchment is one of the best in the town therefore it is unfair. If you’re that worried don’t move.

If the surgery is allowing the woman to stay then it’s not the woman’s fault. It’s the surgery who are at fault. As I said above all surgery’s should have the same rule.

Talk to the surgery manager.

I think YABVU.

We live about 5 miles from 2 towns/villages and are registered with a GP in the town over the county border. Like a PP because we're rural we get to use the surgery pharmacy. We've been registered there for the 15 years we've lived in this house and I don't see why we should be shoved off the list because the council have allowed 000s of houses to be built in the town without the necessary infrastructure. I'm not even sure where we'd go because due to all the building locally I suspect we'd have to find a GP surgery 20+ miles away.

If your DD has recently moved back of course she'll be treated as a new patient.

Each to their own but personally they might as well do away with catchment if they are t going to stick to them.

I don’t have a problem with her being treated as a new patient. I do however have a problem with a surgery claiming they have too high numbers which are patients who aren’t in catchment in some cases yes.

@ShitPoetryClub My DS had a problem with his toe in 2019. I tried to get it sorted privately when he was home for the Summer but ultimately it required surgery. He consulted his Uni GP when he returned in Sept 2019, got a referral to the hospital in Jan 2020 and was fortunate to get surgery in February 2020. If he'd been registered with his home GP I've got no doubts he'd still be waiting for surgery now.

bigbluebus Glad that worked for him, it's so wrong that treatment options are dependent on where you live.

She's probably got complex needs which you have no idea of, but with which the surgery are very familiar. There are always exceptions, and she seems to be one of them. I expect there's a good reason for it, which is not your business. This surgery presumably has a different policy to your old one, or maybe your old one felt they were unable to help your family and judged it better you find a more suitable surgery once you moved. Your daughter didn't have to register with another surgery just because she was at Uni - my dd hasn't, and nor have any of her friends. Surely your dd can consult your surgery as she is part of your family and is staying with you using your address?

It used to be you could see a gp anywhere in the country if you needed one - I had an severe ms attack when on holiday and there was no problem seeing my relative's gp as we were staying with them; we've had it the other way round too, a guest falls ill and sees our gp. Can you really not do that any more? What was all that about the money following the patient?

When I moved outside of my catchment area I had to do some paperwork but I was so grateful they kept me on as they're the best GP practice I've ever been too. So im grateful that I didn't have to move