have you changed dr's surgery within your local area and how easy was it?

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i'm fed up with my dr's surgery, its been one thing after another.

so although ive only been there for about 5 months i'm thinking of changing. i picked up the forms at the new surgery today.

my only concerns are that:
-i just registered my 8wo daughter there yesterday and how complicated will it be to change so soon after initial registration (long story but since that registration ive had two appointments inclding first immunisations which both have been problematic)
-i'm under ongoing hospital treatment because of postnatal problems and i'm worried that my hospital will send the letters to the wrong gp.

anyone done this and how did it go?

thanks

My dds school surgery did this (she says without any signatures) so we had to go and re-register at gps near my home. Very straight forward and no problems. It should be fine!

Oh and call hospital to give them your new gp's details.

I just filled a form in and dropped it in to them.

Provided the new practice is happy to take you on (they still notionally have the idea of catchment areas) it should be simple although I second the advice to tell the hospital about the change yourself.

It may take slightly longer for the paperwork to catch up with your dd because her registration is so new, and you may get called for her vaccs at the old practice.

Sorry to hear about the hassles you've had.

ooh fluffy there you are .
We need you on this www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/1535610-ouch-really-really-ouch-something-really-trivial-is-hurting-me-and-affecting-everything
thread about mega verrucas .
It even has pictures
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where have you been !

Many apologies to OP - I changed my mums surgery ( inner London ) and thought we'd be interregated .
But it was fine ,just filled a form out .

I'm usually in credit crunch or the litter tray ginger.

Lovely !

thank you so much for all your replies. sounds like ive got a weekend of form filling then! it will be nice to be able to go to the dr without getting an attitude problem from the receptionist though (although i know this isn't guaranteed, but it would be hard to be as rude as the current one) and without getting misinformation from the dr...

I would caution you against getting your hopes up too high :) My practice is excellent but the reception staff are very unfriendly, you just roll with it. The misinformation (if it relates to vaccinations) may be because the doctors are less clued in to the current schedules than the health visitors would be.