Some questions are not included by default on the NHSE national form. To enable these questions, practices need to access the NHS Profile Manager and manually turn them on.
1. 💊 Direct Dispensing (for dispensing surgeries)
If you are a dispensing practice, you can ask patients if they wish to receive their medicines or medical aids directly from your surgery.
Patients must meet specific eligibility criteria, such as:
Want to get their medicines or medical aids direct from your surgery
Live more than 1 mile from their nearest pharmacy, or
Would have serious difficulty getting to their nearest pharmacy
Based on their answers, the system will inform them:
If they are not eligible for the service
If they may be eligible and that you might discuss it with them further
We follow the Dispensing Catchment Area rules: Patients living more than 1 mile (1.6km) away from a pharmacy will be a dispensing patient.
2. 🗣️ Interpreting Services
If you’d like to offer interpreting services, you can ask patients if they need a language interpreter for their appointments.
The service will ask the patient:
If they need an interpreter.
Which language they need an interpreter for
3. 🏥 Nominating a Pharmacy
You can ask patients if they would like to nominate a pharmacy for their prescriptions.
If they answer yes, they will be asked:
If they prefer an online or high street pharmacy
To search for and select a high street pharmacy using a postcode look up, or
To register directly with an online pharmacy
4. 👩🎓 Identifying University Students
If your practice is university-affiliated or you register many university students, you can ask students if they are currently enrolled at a UK university.
The patient will be asked:
If they are a student at a UK university
For their student identification number
The year their course finishes
Where they are living while at university
5. 💉 Tuberculosis (TB) Screening
You can offer tuberculosis (TB) screening to patients, especially those who may be at higher risk.
This question identifies patients who:
Are aged between 16 and 35.
Have recently arrived in the UK from a non-EU country
Were born in or have spent over 6 months in a country with a higher risk of TB
For eligible patients, we will leave a signal on their registration form indicating they may be eligible for TB screening.
✅ Changing Your Settings
To enable these additional questions, please refer to NHSE's support article for guidance: How to Turn on Optional Extra Questions
For a complete list of questions included on the NHSE registration form, visit the NHS England Registration Questions.