Our practice offers a range of non-NHS administrative services. This work takes place outside our NHS time, and therefore fees are often applicable. Please see the table below.

All forms are completed at the discretion of the GP, and if we are unable to complete your requested form we will contact you.

Specialist Assessments

Our GPs are trained to provide general medical services and support within the NHS framework. Specialist assessments should be undertaken by professionals with specific expertise in those fields.

Therefore, we do not undertake private work that may involve specialist assessments or activities which present a significant risk of vicarious liability. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fitness to fly assessments
• Clearance for high-risk sports (e.g., mountaineering, skydiving, paragliding)
• Certification for participation in sporting events (e.g., marathons, triathlons)
• Diving medicals
• Medical certifications for extreme sports or adventure travel
• Driving assessments beyond completing DVLA requests or those listed below
• Court of Protection Forms, Mental Capacity Act Assessment for Solicitor’s forms (COP1/COP2)

To have these forms completed, patients are advised to seek independent medical assessments from specialists in the relevant field. These might include:

• Occupational health specialists
• Sports physicians
• Aviation or diving medical examiners
• Travel medicine clinics
• Solicitors

Blue Badge and PIP requests

Applications for Blue Badges are dealt with by the local council: https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/parking/bluebadge/howtoapply

For Blue Badge and PIP forms they often ask for a patient summary which we can provide free of charge. Usually if they require any further information they will contact us directly. If you feel you need a GP letter as supporting evidence this would be charged as below.

Specific Medicals:

We do provide medicals for:

• HGV (D4)
• Seafarers (ML5)
• Taxi drivers (HFDC)
• Entrance to Armed forces
• Adoption medicals (AH1/AH2)
• Fostering medicals

For D4 and ML5 forms you will need to have a vision assessment at an optician before seeing the GP for a medical.

Travel Cancellation

Please check with your insurance company if they need a letter from your GP or if they will need a form to be completed which is more common.

The form will need to be submitted to the surgery so your GP can complete it and there is a fee as below.

Request for medical notes

You can also apply for online access to your notes you can download the NHS App which will also give you access to some of your notes and results.

Patients may need medical notes for lots of reasons but the request does need to be in writing.

You may only need a copy of specific problems so please make sure you make this clear.

Passport applications

GPs can no longer act as passport signatories unless they know the applicant in a personal capacity:

https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/accepted-occupations-for-countersignatories