If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days; after 14 days, you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.
You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months, this will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP; after three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.
To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use, practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment.
You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.