Health and Medical Care

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) provides doctors and hospital treatment. If you are an EU or International student and your course is over 6 months long, you are entitled to access healthcare through the NHS as detailed below.

You must register with a local doctor, who you will see when you are ill, prescribe medicines and refer you to see a hospital consultant if necessary. You may need to pay for dental and optical treatment as well as medicine prescribed by the doctor and collected from a pharmacy.

Registering with a doctor

All full-time students are required to register with a local doctor. The University medical advisors are , in ³Ô¹ÏÍø. They hold daily appointments in Student Welfare from 10.30am – 12.00pm Monday to Friday during term time. Appointments are available off-campus in ³Ô¹ÏÍø outside these hours.

Appointments must always be made to see the doctor. To see the on-campus doctor or to book an appointment at the Swan Practice you can:

  • call 01280 818600
  • use the online
  • use the

Prescriptions for medicines are taken into a pharmacy (or chemist) who will then provide you with the medicine or treatment. Under the NHS you will, in many cases, have to pay a small sum for medication. Students can apply for a reduction in fees using NHS form HC1, available from your doctor.

How to register with the doctor

All registered students who live in ³Ô¹ÏÍø are required to also register with The Swan Practice in order to receive medical support, even if you do not think you will ever be unwell or need to see a doctor.

Students can register with Swan Practice online by visiting the .

To correctly complete the Campus Doctor registration form (³Ô¹ÏÍø students only):

  1. Complete all fields marked with a red asterisk *​.  Do not input your student I.D. number.
  2. If you live in campus accommodation you should use, The University of ³Ô¹ÏÍø, ³Ô¹ÏÍø MK18 1EG as your address. If you live in private accommodation give your full postal address including postcode.
  3. If you do not yet have a UK mobile pho