Although catchment areas are a good guide to where you can register there is some room for flexibility, and each practice can take people outside their catchment area.

Having been with the Jenner for 35 years when I moved house outside their catchment area I wanted to stay with them. Eventually they realised I had moved and when I booked an appointment I found I was no longer on their list, but they quickly agreed to taking me back. I may be on the wrong side of the railway but when I registered with them at the age of 4, my road was in their catchment so no reason not to take me back.

Really we need a GP practice in forest hill ward, i think the only ward in lewisham without a gp, and with greater distance to a gp than virtually all of inner london. The ambulance station would make a good location, the amulances could share facilities with the fire station. But there is no interest from the local health authority.