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For medical advice, treatment or prescriptions, you can contact your GP practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GP practices are busy. If you have a minor illness, please think about whether you can manage it yourself with guidance from NHS Inform<\/strong><\/a>  or visit your local pharmacist first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your local GP practice can give you more information about which services they offer and how you can access them.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Register with a GP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anyone can register with a GP practice. For more information please see our Patient Registration<\/strong><\/a> page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also use the patient address lookup for GP Practices <\/a>to find which GP practice covers your address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have been unable to register with a practice or are otherwise experiencing difficulty you can email loth.primarycareenquiries@nhs.scot<\/a> for further advice. Please include your full address and postcode in your email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temporary Restrictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are currently no practices in Lothian who are closed to patient registrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How GP Practices are Working<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are now more ways you can access care from your GP practice including over the phone or video call. If you need to be seen in person you will be given a face-to-face appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When contacting the practice, the GP receptionist will ask a few questions to make sure you get the right care with the right person at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside GP\u2019s, many practices offer appointments with nurses, pharmacists, health visitors, district nurses, counsellors, podiatrists, community psychiatric nurses and other specialist professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For medical advice, treatment or prescriptions, you can contact your GP practice. GP practices are busy. If you have a minor illness, please think about whether you can manage it yourself with guidance from NHS Inform  or visit your local pharmacist first.  Your local GP practice can give you more information about which services they offer and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/author\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"For medical advice, treatment or prescriptions, you can contact your GP practice. GP practices are busy. If you have a minor illness, please think about whether you can manage it yourself with guidance from NHS Inform  or visit your local pharmacist first.  Your local GP practice can give you more information about which services they offer and","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}