Hi we'll be looking at going out on a temporary work permit with a view to hopefully get PR once there and so this question wont be an issue. But should this fail and it all go belly up I'm wondering if we should somehow keep our GP here, rather than burn our bridges. Anyone else kept their GP or got experience of this?

(I know you're probably not supposed to but have heard of lots who've emigrated to europe who do? how do they do it without anyone realising?quick visits back on easyjet maybe and a willing relative with suitable address?)

You need to get copies of medical records from your UK GP to take with you which sorta gives the game away.

You can always re-register when you get back.

I dont think you can have the best of both worlds, Once you leave then you got to sign off all registers.
We live in a Housing Association house and friends have said I should rent it out until were sure we want to stay in Canada, then we got something to fall back on.
I have said a BIG NO!!
This is one of the reasons we want to leave the UK, there is no morals or honesty.
If you stay registered what about that poor old lady who has just moved to the area and cant get registered because your taking up space at her local GP so she has to get a bus in the pouring rain and wind 3 miles to the GP that can see her.
The reason you can in Europe is because of the EU, I got given a card a few years back that I can take with me when visiting europe so you can get free or discounted healthcare/prescriptions

When you leave you leave in my opinion anyway
Chris

Just before I left the UK, I went to see my GP to stock up on some prescription stuff. I told him I was leaving the country and asked him if there was anyone in the health service I needed to tell. He said not; the system would know that I'd left.

why on earth would you need med records?? totally unecessary unless you have some dreadful disease in which case you would have problems getting through the med anyway ???

We never got copies of our medical records?

Some people advise you take your records, i guess more for people who have had a more interesting medical history, i suppose it makes it easier for your new practice to see what drugs you have previously been prescibed and how up to date your innoculations are. Your new practice may well request them from your UK GP anyway, which would obviously let the old GP know you have moved on.

You're right, takes the place others may need, very true. Can re-register if we had to come back.

I was just concerned because I've had a few serious health problems in the past, I'm ok now and it wouldnt be a problem for immigration but I think I was just nervous at the thought of leaving my GP who knows all my history only to have to return in a year or 2 because TWP finished and then I couldnt get back with him. Just a panic moment.

Logically GPs are pretty much the same, an illness is an illness afterall. I think I would quite like to take my medical records though because I would want any new Canadian doctor to know all the history. thats me panicing again!