Can you have 2 GP registrations?

[Happybunniess]

One at home and one at university?

No, they register with a new gp at uni

When your YP is home for the summer they can register as a temporary patient at your local GP. It takes 5 days to process the request and they can remain on the local surgery's list for up to 3 months.

Thank you. And they do this every Christmas and Summer break?

Do they need to register back near uni when they return each year?

Seems a bit crazy. There should be able to have 2 GPs.

They remain registered at the university medical center
They take up temporary registration at home, which doesn't affect their university registration at all.
Mine have done this over the summer not over Xmas which is too short a break.
The alternative over Xmas for us would be NHS clinics / private GP's locally

Unfortunately, one GP system cannot necessarily view / access another’s so there would be an issue of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing for long term issues. There is no central NHS data base at this time.
The alternative to a temporary registration would be to use walk in centres or urgent treatment centres as and when.

You stay registered with the university all the time. If you need medical care in the holidays you approach your local GP to be seen. You don't need to register as a TR each holiday only if you need seen. GPs get paid a set amount each year for seeing TRs for our practice this was £2400 per year whether we saw 1 or 100 TRs a year.
There's nothing happens on the system for a TR. all we do is search for the inactive patient record. It doesn't take 5 days it can be immediate. So don't believe that. (Takes more effort to register a TR for someone who's never been on the list before eg holiday makers)
Your old records remain on the computer system the only thing is all the letters won't be available to view as they get extracted and moved to the university GP system. Obviously in England you have the NHS app to see your letters if needed but in Scotland we didn't have this.

Thank you

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/

I think the current system is ridiculous, given the number of students. If a student has an ongoing medical issue, for example, it’s a flippin’ nightmare trying to get past The Receptionist Says No, even when they’ve been a regular patient since birth and are only away half the year.

Even decades ago I went to the doctor in my home town aged 28 (hadn’t been since I was in primary school) to find that I was a non-person as I was still registered at university (hadn’t even been to doctor there).

Surely in this day and age computers could cope with registered students having two locations for three years?

I agree, it's a stupid system at the moment.

My dd has been unable to register with a GP in her university city because she has a pending referral with her GP at home for which she has been on a very long waiting list. She would have to lose that place and start all over again if she changed her GP. So she doesn't have a GP locally where she lives for most of the time. She rarely needs to see her GP so it hasn't been a problem so far, but it's far from ideal.

so if we’re waiting for an examination at the home town hospital (which presumably goes through the home town GP?) then we can’t register with a GP in university city?

Thanks all for bringing this up btw, this has been on our mind

Check with your own GP, but yes, this is what we were advised. DD was told that she would still be able to access medical care in the university city if needed, but I think they told her that she would need to go to a walk in centre or similar in order to access care.

Yeah this. They register as a full time patient at the GP practice in their uni town, then when they come home they register as a temporary patient at home. I think the registration lasts 28 days, so if they're here for summer (and they're home for say, 10 or 11 weeks or so,) they'll need to re-register every 28 days ( obvs!)

Never takes 5 days at my surgery to get them registered though @Happybunniess they're on the system the same day.

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No they don't need to re register every 28 days. TR s are 15 days or 3 months. Honestly now there's no reason to state length of time but it's historical in that pre 2004 we got paid for TRs as a short (up to 15 days) or long(up to 3 months) they used this information before the 2004 contract came out to decide how much money to add to our global sum. For our practice it was £200 a month which never changed over the next 20 years was in practice.

If your child doesn't need medical care over the holidays then you don't need to contact the home surgery and if they do you register at the time of need. There's actually nothing special happens. We don't get paid anything, nothing goes to the health board. We can access your notes by reactivating them on our system. As a TR you ate entitled to the same care as normal patients..that is if you need an appointment today you need to be seen or if it's non urgent they can give you an appointment in the future. (Hahaha...if you can get one)
But our contract with the health board states we must provide this care. It really annoyed me when local practices refused to see patients who needed to be seen and our practice ended up seeing them as we put the patient at the centre of everything.

You only need to do a temporary registration if they actually need a doctors appointment, university practices will arrange for repeat prescriptions etc to cover breaks for routine things. My dc only had to do a temporary registration a couple of times

No, but you can choose.
My dc have all chosen to stay with home GP.
Reasonings is that they would have to register as a temporary patent if they needed medical attention either at home (if GP is at uni) or at Uni (if GP is at home).
In an emergency that can be done.

But for something that's more routine and needs checking but not urgently they firstly know our doctors, secondly have more time in the holidays and lastly if they needed my support I can be there.

It's not been an issue and as 2/3 have come back to live at home again for a while after uni, it's saved changing twice too.

Edited to add: They've none of them needed a GP at Uni.
Dd2 once came home ill, but she'd have come home anyway and the fact her GP was here was useful.

My son stayed with home GP. I domt think it is an issue of they are healthy and domt have a chronic condition. I domt think he needed to see the GP at all.in 3 years. I think they can still.access the emergency medical centre on camput of needed (and then transfer maybe?)

Both DC stayed registered with their GP at home. If there was a problem at uni they could go to a walk in centre etc. No point in changing as they’re home for long periods in the holidays plus one of the DC is under shared care and we don’t want to mess that up

Yes, it's a myth that we have a "national" health service. In reality a series of cottage industries loosely linked.

Is there any reason why they can't remain permanently registered at home but register as a 3 month temporary patient in their university town at the beginning of September and beginning of January? (Probably no point doing it after Easter if they only have exams and are home by the end of May as many are)

I’m not sure why they can’t as the records are online now so healthcare professionals can access. I suspect it’s more to do with the payment they receive from the government as they get paid per patient so the gov aren’t going to want to pay double for one patient

Answering my own question, I suspect its discouraged because GPs in university towns would be swamped with temporary patients - but its far more logical to treat the university address as the temporary one.

But most universities have a “university health centre” and you’re kind of funnelled into registering there. I agree that for some institutions wihout these there would be a glut of temporary patients, but on the other side of the coin perhaps the dedicated student health centres don’t want to lose juicy funding if their patients are ad hoc if they keep their home doctor.

There's lots of funding but it is needed to pay the extra staff the health centre has to take on every September to get through registering thousands of students. It's a huge workload Lots of foreign students register too and many come from abroad expecting everything to be sorted out free on the nhs. It's really not a money making situation for the practices.

DD is registered at uni, and transfer went very smoothly - she'd just had some blood tests at home, but the uni surgery followed those up. They were also good about making sure that her hospital referral didn't come through during the holidays.
She did have one occasion when she needed to see a doctor at home. She filled in the triage form at her uni doctor, asking whether it was something that could wait until she got back or should she try and see a doctor locally. That possibly made it slightly easier to request a face-to-face appointment here, as they'd said she needed one, and it only took one day to get registered temporarily and see someone. She was also given the alternative of an appointment via 111, so that might be the best route for something more urgent.