How to change surgeries/district nurse care/hospital/health trust etc due to geographical move

[splendidgirl]

My parents are looking to move

and my dad has been unwell with many departments involved in his care:
District nurse
opthalmology
rheumatology
plus urology
and general from the GP
Eg currently has weekly bladder wash from the district nurse etc
they have been able to sell their house to buy something more suited and closer to my DB but it’s in the next county and so diff hosps etc

any advice on how to proceed would be great?

They contact the GP surgeries where they are moving to and ask if they are taking on new patients, then register themselves, the old GP surgery will forward their medical records on the computer. Call the district nurses and tell them they are moving, the new GP will refer them to the nurses. They can apply online or through their current GP to have access to their medical records, take a note of their current hospital appointments, treatments, hospital id numbers, they should have discharge letters if they have been in hospital, put it all in a file and they just go along to hospital like usual when they move, if they need referring to specialists then the gp or current specialistis can arrange that.

@splendidgirl each service may need to help separately - in our experience some teams were quite good at sharing treatment plans with new area - but we did need each department, even in the same hospital they manage their area only.

GP was the hardest because we felt at the back of the queue for services which require GP referral like foot care, which was fortnightly before the move.