If you can get a doctor to take you as a patient voluntarily, it is a better basis for a good patient/doctor relationship. However, if you can’t get a doctor to accept you as a patient, you can ask CSA to place your name on to a doctor’s list.

You need to write to us at the address below, enclosing your medical card, if available, and ask to be placed on to a doctor’s list. This process is called assignment. If you have lost your medical card you need to tell us your name, address, date of birth and last GP who you were registered with.

The assignment process is done on a rota basis and so your name will be placed on the list of a doctor in your area, who is the next doctor due to get an assigned patient.

We will process your request for assignment within 48 hours and you will be sent a new medical card showing the name of the doctor you have been assigned to.

Write to:-

Assignment Officer
Central Services Agency
2 Franklin Street
BELFAST
BT2 8DQ