Policy Updates

Patient Registration and Identity Check Policy and Procedure

Clinical Governance Risk Management and Safeguarding Region: | Reference: GCR17

Policy has been updated to reflect the process for registering patients prior to their release from a secure residential estate with a link added to the References section. Content has been updated to highlight that some people within the homeless population will be at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and should be encouraged to register, even as a temporary patient, with the Practice. An extra definition has been added and all references have been reviewed and updated.