It is essential that you check your residence is within our practice boundary. This boundary starts at Melville Drive and continues along Hope Park Terrace, Bernard Terrace, Dalkeith Road, Prestfield Road, Peffermill Road, Lady Road, Gilmerton Road, Mount Vernon Road, Liberton Gardens, Howden Hall Road, Frogston Road East, Frogston Road West, City of Edinburgh Bypass, Dreghorn Link, Redford Road, Colinton Road, Bridge Road, Gillespie Road, Lanark Road, Slateford Road, Angle Park Terrace, Dundee Street, Fountainbridge, West Tollcross, Gilmore Place, Glengyle Terrace, Leven Terrace and finishes at Melville Drive.

If you move out of our Practice area, difficulties can arise if emergency calls are necessary during peak times or out-of-hours. In these instances we would ask you to register with a Doctor closer to your new home.

Please phone NHS Inform Helpline: 0800 224488 or visit their website: www.nhsinform.scot to obtain details of doctors in your area.

If you are staying in the area and become ill while away from home please consider seeking advice from NHS Inform or a pharmacy in the first instance.

Should you need emergency treatment with a doctor, you can register as a temporary patient (for no more than 3 months).  These appointments are only available on the day. 

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.

Open the leaflets in one of the following languages:

 

English	Farsi	Urdu
Albanian	Bengali	Hindi
Arabic	Croatian	Lithuanian
Bulgarian	Punjabi	Polish
Chinese (Cantonese)	Somali	Portuguese
Chinese (Mandarin)	Gujerati	Spanish
Russian	Turkish	French

Our premises are adaptable for disabled person access, and patients requiring assistance should advise reception staff who will be pleased to help. A designated parking bay is adjacent to the surgery entrance and the surgery has a ramp and wide doors to allow for wheelchair access.