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Register with a GP surgery service

Take patient registrations online quickly and easily. Use Register with a GP surgery service for free if you are an NHS GP practice in England.

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Sign up for the service

The Register with a GP surgery service gives all GP practices in England a standardised way of taking registrations online. It makes it simpler and more accessible for patients to register with a GP and easier for practices to manage registrations. 

The service is designed and run by NHS England and is free for NHS GP practices to use.

Sign in through NHS Profile Manager to manage your account if you already use it. 

Benefits

Why use Register with a GP surgery

  • Take patient registrations online quickly and easily

  • Free for NHS GP practices to use 

  • Automatically check if patients are in your catchment area

  • Save time spent matching patients to their NHS records

  • Digital patient identity checks through NHS login

Service demo

Try out our demo registration form

Use our demo registration form to view and interact with the registration process. 

Contact our support team to book a service demo

Register with a GP surgery is supported 9am to 5pm, five days a week.

Contact our support team to request a service demo.

Performance data

2,114

GP practices in England using the service

757,659

 patient registrations submitted

90%

of patients matched to an NHS record

What's next on the roadmap

Help using the service

Really great service and very easy to enrol, we were up and running in just a few hours.

News about the service

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Practice Management Community webinar - 21 November 2023

Learn about the latest developments in the Register with a GP surgery service. 

Join us for our next webinar

Fern Williams, user researcher

How do you put a digital service on paper?

User researcher Fern Williams describes how we created a new paper patient registration form to complement the online ‘Register with a GP surgery’ service, allowing everyone to have a consistent user experience and leaving no one digitally excluded.

Read Fern's blog

Josh Healey, user-centred design lead

Why accessible design is good design

Josh Healey, User-Centred Design Lead for the Register with a GP surgery service, explains how redesigning the first page of the service made it more accessible for everyone.

Read Josh's blog

Contact us

Register with a GP surgery is supported 9am to 5pm, five days a week.

Contact our support team if you have a question or want to give feedback.

Last edited: 29 November 2023 3:02 pm