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[Bazzer]

Remains to be seen if I have passed the checks, but the process for with the app seemed very straightforward.

Still got paper driving licence and don’t have a passport so I won’t be bothering with that then.

Registered with your GP for online services?

If you are registered for your GP surgery’s online services, you will have been given 3 registration details.

The 3 registration details are:

• Linkage Key (could be called Passphrase)
• O.D.S. Code (could be called Organisation Code or Practice I.D.)
• Account I.D.

You can use these 3 registration details to prove who you are instead of using photo I.D.

 

[Rezillo]

did mine after seeing this a few minute ago.

all done ane confirmation email received in 15 minutes

EDIT

Just been online on the app and linked to my GP practice.

all my repeat meds are there and the repeat scrip I requested online on 19 Feb.

To me, it looks like joined-up thinking and trivially easy to sign up and use.

Mrs R's verification took minutes but when I did mine a few weeks ago, it took half a day. The other steps were excruciatingly slow to respond as well - it took me over an hour to get to the verification stage. It would help if it has a list of documents to have ready before one starts!

My point was that while it is all working ok now - Mrs R's was straightward other than a flap to find her passport as her only photo ID - the various steps involved could lock up under heavy demand. It wasn't straightforward getting my old NHS number updated as it takes you down a separate route to obtain and verify it. I had my NHS card with my number on but it wouldn't accept it as valid and I had no idea why until I found it was obsolete.

I haven't used my GP surgery in years apart from a outside flu jab at at a local college in December so I had nothing registered with them, just my landline and home address.

 

[raleighnut]

No Passport, no Driving Licence and my basic Nokia doesn't do 'Apps', I'm out.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I did ours a few weeks ago, I had to do it on my tablet, it was a bit of a faf to set up, but now it works on all devices except my Good ladies dumb phone, its useful, I can order our repeat prescriptions with a few clicks, a lot better than trying to order through the POD, no half an hour on hold waiting to speak to someone.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Still got paper driving licence

so I won’t be bothering with that then

And my "smart phone" doesn't have enough memory

 

[Archie_tect]

Many thanks @Rezillo !

 

[SheilaH]

It is not the "NHS" app. It is the Serco app.

Important distinction

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Mod note:

As @Rezillo 's thread merged with @Archie_tect 's original thread gets things back on track it has been reopened.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

NHS Scotland don’t appear to have discovered online booking. Just need to wait for the postie

They are waiting for the electric lamp to arrive...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Do you get a lollipop after?

 

[PaulSB]

Registering with the NHS is one of the most soul destroying experiences anyone can have. Only a total idiot can have been in charge when that system was devised. There are some major idiots in NHS and I assume they all got together to make things as awkward as possible.
What other website requires you to be sent a letter by snail mail to confirm that you are eligble to register?
It, like most of the NHS digital programmes, is not fit for purpose.

You don't need a letter anymore. It can be done from home provided you have a photo driving licence or valid passport. I agree the letter thing was a total PIA.

 

[weareHKR]

Im 51, got mine Friday.

Mrs D is 41, already had hers

You old timers need to get with the programme!

Hmmm.... You're sounding too happy, it was probably a shot of Crack Cocaine... 😂😂

 

[Drago]

Hmmm.... You're sounding too happy, it was probably a shot of Crack Cocaine... 😂😂

Yep, they'd run out of lollipops so had to improvise.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

You don't need a letter anymore. It can be done from home provided you have a photo driving licence or valid passport. I agree the letter thing was a total PIA.

Thanks. When I did it I had a 40 (yes Forty) minute discussion/interrogation in our surgery. The receptionist, who lives over the back from me and who we regularly talk to over the fence, refused to believe who I was. NHS procedure. Passport AND driving licence were needed. Then a referral to Practice Manager, then the letter.
Then I couldn't reorder my eye ointment because the doctor hadn't ticked the right box. So I had to make an appointment.
As I said the whole NHS digital records system is not fit for purpose.
Is has been drawn up by a committee of civil servants absolutely determined to ensure that nothing can be blamed on them, and sod the patients. How the elderly will manage all this has never been thought through....and nobody cares.

 

[weareHKR]

Thanks. When I did it I had a 40 (yes Forty) minute discussion/interrogation in our surgery. The receptionist, who lives over the back from me and who we regularly talk to over the fence, refused to believe who I was. NHS procedure. Passport AND driving licence were needed. Then a referral to Practice Manager, then the letter.
Then I couldn't reorder my eye ointment because the doctor hadn't ticked the right box. So I had to make an appointment.
As I said the whole NHS digital records system is not fit for purpose.
Is has been drawn up by a committee of civil servants absolutely determined to ensure that nothing can be blamed on them, and sod the patients. How the elderly will manage all this has never been thought through....and nobody cares.

Decent Summary... 👍🏼