When we first moved to SE23 we rented close to the Forest Hill Group Practice but we could not get on the list or any other local GPs. After some help from NHS Direct and a letter from them we were eventually (5 month after we had moved to the area!) allocated to the Brockley Road Surgery which at the time was at least a 20/25 min walk from where we lived. We eventually bought a house which happened to be much closer to the Brockley Road Surgery and now only have a 5min walk. Since this surgery has been taken over by the same people as the Hilly Fields Medical Center, the GPs are also much better (before we saw a lot of locums who did not stay long and the old GP who had been running that surgery retired). Now there is stability and some great GPs and I actually quite like that surgery. The nurse is nice too.