Please use the map below to check if your home is within our area. If you are not sure please contact reception.
Please be aware that Harborne Medical has the right to remove you from the practice list and request that you register with another GP surgery. We would only do this if your care needs are such that it is becoming clinically unsafe or inappropriate for you not to have home visits. Any decision of this nature would be discussed with you prior to giving you notice.
Out of Area Policy
If you live outside the practice boundary, you may apply to register as an Out of Area patient.
A patient who the practice agrees to register/continue to register as an Out of Area patient will not be eligible to receive home visits from the practice.
You must attend face to face appointments when you are requested to do so. Telephone appointments may be appropriate in some situations.
Children under 5 cannot be accepted due to Locality based Health Visiting provision.
Primary care givers should be registered at the surgery as their children.
The decision to retain a patient or to register one living outside the practice boundary must be taken by the Partners as it is relative to the service the patient needs.
The practice will not register any out of area patient unless they are certain that the patient’s clinical care will not be compromised and a safe and adequate commissioned service is available in the locality, should patients be too ill to travel to the practice.
The practice may feel that the patient’s needs would be better met through registration with a practice close to where they live. This particularly relates to patients who:
- Have complex long-term conditions or patients who are receiving a package of home-based care or community-based support which would be difficult for the practice to coordinate remotely.
- Rely on home visits from their current GP practice.
- Have practical reasons which mean the patient is unlikely to benefit from out of area registration with the practice (for example, the patient is not spending frequent periods of time in or near the practice area where they wish to register.)
- Have concerns relating to child or adult safeguarding.
- Do not have their full medical records prior to registration.
For new out of area patients, the practice may contact the existing registered practice in order to ensure that it is clinically appropriate to accept a registration from the patient before the patient is told that he/she has been accepted.
Should your circumstances change or there is an appropriate clinical reason, the practice may review your registration status to ensure it is still clinically safe to offer out-of-area care.
Applications to register from people living out of area will be made on an individual patient basis, taking account of their individual circumstances.