Can you have 2 GP registrations?

[Happybunniess]

One at home and one at university?

I totally agree.

DD has just been diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis and it seems ridiculous that she can't get simple blood tests done without endless paper work and chopping and changing.

They need to register as a permanent patient at their university address and only need to register as a temporary patient during the holidays only if they need medical care from the GP.

Please read the thread. The conversation has moved on from 'what they're supposed to do' to 'why?' and 'how ridiculous!'.

Another thing to talk about is prescription charges - students aren't automatically free any more, they have to complete an income assessment. It can be a shock when they first get asked to pay for prescriptions.

I’m thinking DS will stay registered at home. We’re in Wales and his university is in England. Knowing how poor communication is between health boards, I can only imagine how poor it is between different countries! Plus prescriptions are free here. I’ll post up what he needs from his list of regular meds if it doesn’t coincide with him being at home.

One thing to remember is that prescriptions can be sent electronically, so your home gp can send it to your local Boots, or wherever, in your university town.

So e students also keep their home gp as their main gp, and register as a temporary patient elsewhere. However, I don’t believe the temporary gp gets your full notes. It’s designed so if you’re on holiday and need antibiotics, you can get them. Also, pharmacists can provide some medications now without seeing a gp.

My university GP never sent on my records when I returned home after university. I finally got them after over a year of searching for my childhood imms record… I’d left university 10 years prior.

I needed a hell of lot more prescriptions during term time. Thousands of teenagers not washing their hands = frequent antibiotics need.

He’s going to see how it goes. Pharmacies can help with lots of basic issues.
If we’ve got it wrong, he can reregister at university

If they were registered with two GPs both GPs would get paid for having them on their books. Plus the fact that they might be taking up a GP place someone else could have - our GPs list is currently full.

When I was at uni I know I was registered at the Uni GP, but was able to do a temporary registration for my old GP near my parents quickly if needed. I believe they kept an appointment for me so like I rang at 8, they reserved an 11am appointment and I went in at 10.30 to get the temporary registration paperwork done before my appointment. A temporary registration doesn't cancel your other one, so you only need to register at home over the summer IF you need to see a GP that summer and you remain registered at uni even if you do temporarily register with your home GP.

Ok, stupid question - what happens if you have the NHS app? Does that get automatically updated to your new university GP surgery details, or do you need to do something? Will you still get results from ongoing investigations/blood tests/etc that you had under your family doctor at home?

Not in Scotland. They've been talking about it for over 10 years but the Scottish rabble of a government refuse to switch it on so we go through tree loads of paper signing them with a squiggle just to waste time.