Local authority area
GP practices in Braintree
15 open practices in this local authority area, 15 with enough survey answers to be rated.
Braintree as a whole
England 77.2 · 95% interval 70.4 to 74.3
The area’s Practice score is the average over its 15 rated practices. On average they are 4.5 points below the England average (95% interval: 2.9 to 6.8 points below). The Practice score weighs patient experience, the share of patients who describe their practice as good (70%), and access (30%): the share of appointments within two weeks of booking and the share of calls the practice answers, from NHS England’s latest monthly data.
Below the England average
This compares patients’ answers in the area as a whole with England’s, every rated practice counting equally, as each practice’s label compares its patients’ answers. Access moves the figure above, not this. It says nothing about any single practice: see each practice’s own page.
Best-rated GP practices in Braintree
Top-rated in Braintree 2026: The Coggeshall Surgery. 2 practices in Braintree are in the top 10% in England. How the awards work.
By Practice score, highest first, among the 9 practices in Braintree with a label. Each score has a margin of error, and neighbouring scores often overlap, so nearby places can be close calls.
| Place | Practice | Survey answers | Practice score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Coggeshall SurgeryTop-rated in Braintree 2026 | 107 | 90.886.8 to 93.1 |
| 2 | The Freshford PracticeTop 10% in England 2026 | 113 | 88.883.4 to 92.0 |
| 3 | Blyth's Meadow SurgeryClearly above the England average | 117 | 83.876.7 to 88.1 |
| 4 | Hedingham Medical Centre | 106 | 83.176.3 to 87.8 |
| 5 | The Elizabeth Courtauld Surgery | 112 | 80.966.8 to 89.3 |
| 6 | Kelvedon & Feering Health Centre | 114 | 77.671.3 to 82.5 |
| 7 | The Pump House Surgery | 110 | 75.868.7 to 81.3 |
| 8 | Blandford Medical Centre | 105 | 70.854.1 to 82.6 |
| 9 | Fern House Surgery | 107 | 65.951.1 to 76.9 |
The line under each grade is its 95% interval. The Practice score weighs patient experience, the share of patients who describe their practice as good (70%), and access (30%): the share of appointments within two weeks of booking and the share of calls the practice answers, from NHS England’s latest monthly data. The label compares patients’ answers with England’s; access moves the grade, never the label.
Only practices with a label are placed. Practices without one are in the full list below, with their figures.
All GP practices in Braintree, A to Z
In alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking. Each Practice score is shown with its 95% interval; a label appears only when the margin of error supports it.
| Practice | Practice score | Survey answers | Response rate | Access | Trend 2024–2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blandford Medical CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 70.8 | 105 | 28.7% | 74.9% | |
Blyth's Meadow SurgeryClearly above the England average | 83.8 | 117 | 27.8% | 75.6% | |
62.4 | 171 | 25.5% | 71.4% | ||
58.9 | 100 | 23.4% | 86.9% | ||
64.0 | 108 | 23.1% | 72.6% | ||
Fern House SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 65.9 | 107 | 30.7% | 61.0% | |
Hedingham Medical CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 83.1 | 106 | 35.8% | 83.7% | |
Kelvedon & Feering Health CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 77.6 | 114 | 32.8% | 79.5% | |
65.3 | 120 | 33.2% | 68.3% | ||
57.2 | 167 | 25.8% | 91.7% | ||
The Coggeshall SurgeryClearly above the England average | 90.8 | 107 | 41.0% | 83.6% | |
The Elizabeth Courtauld SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 80.9 | 112 | 30.4% | 85.6% | |
The Freshford PracticeClearly above the England average | 88.8 | 113 | 42.2% | 82.7% | |
The Pump House SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 75.8 | 110 | 37.3% | 76.2% | |
64.9 | 115 | 29.6% | 76.0% |
The trend column shows overall experience (the share of patients who describe the practice as good), 2024–2026, from the GP Patient Survey (question 32). It is the survey part of the Practice score, not the score itself. Practices with fewer than 3 yearly results are shown without a curve.
Braintree on the map
- Clearly above the England average
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Each practice is placed at the centre of its postcode, not at its building, so practices that share a postcode share a point. Click a point to see every practice there.
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About Braintree
Background
Background on Braintree as context for the practices above. Not part of the Practice score.
- Residents
- 164,304
- Aged 65 and over
- 20.8%
- Aged 80 and over
- 5.8%
Deprivation, income and life expectancy
| Measure | Braintree | England |
|---|---|---|
| Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025)2025 | 16.6 | 21.8 |
| Children under 16 in relative low income families2024/25, 95% interval 14.1 to 15.3 | 14.7% | 19.8% |
| Life expectancy at birth, men2022 to 2024, 95% interval 79.7 to 80.8 | 80.2 years | 79.5 years |
| Life expectancy at birth, women2022 to 2024, 95% interval 83.1 to 84.1 | 83.6 years | 83.3 years |
Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips: residents and ages 2024 (Office for National Statistics), deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), children in low income families 2024/25 (Department for Work and Pensions), life expectancy 2022 to 2024 (Office for National Statistics). Open Government Licence v3.0.
Older people in Braintree
Background
Background on people aged 65 and over in Braintree, with England beside it. No figure here says an area is doing better or worse. Not part of the Practice score.
Hospital care and dementia
| Measure | Braintree | England |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency hospital admissions for falls, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, 95% interval 1,809 to 2,104 | 1,952 | 1,958 |
| Hip fractures, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, 95% interval 514 to 678 | 592 | 536 |
| Estimated dementia diagnosis rate, people aged 65 and over2026, as at 31 March, 95% interval 64.7 to 79.6 | 72.7% | 66.3% |
The hospital figures are age-standardised, so an older population does not raise them. Since 2022/23 some hospital trusts report same-day emergency care in another dataset, which can lower the admissions counted.
The dementia rate is the number of people with a recorded diagnosis out of the number estimated to have dementia. It is counted by where the practice is, not where patients live.
Care homes
| Measure | Braintree | England |
|---|---|---|
| Care home beds per 100 people aged 75 and over2025 | 10.0 | 8.3 |
Beds are counted where the home is, not where its residents come from, and people under 75 also live in care homes.
Life expectancy at 65
| Measure | Braintree | England |
|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy at 65, men2022 to 2024, 95% interval 18.9 to 19.6 | 19.3 years | 18.9 years |
| Life expectancy at 65, women2022 to 2024, 95% interval 21.2 to 21.9 | 21.6 years | 21.4 years |
Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips: hospital admissions 2024/25 (NHS England), dementia diagnosis 2026 (as at 31 March) (NHS England), care home beds 2025 (Care Quality Commission), life expectancy 2022 to 2024 (Office for National Statistics). Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data updated
The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.
- GP Patient Survey: (published 9 July 2026)
- Appointments in General Practice: (published 24 September 2026)
- Cloud Based Telephony Data in General Practice:
- GP Patient Survey, earlier years (2024 and 2025): (published July 2025)
- Area background figures: population, deprivation, life expectancy, older people (Fingertips): (published May 2026)
- NHS organisation data (ODS):
- Postcode locations and local authority areas:
Sources
- 2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
- 2024 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
- 2025 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
- Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence
- Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
- Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026
- Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Area figures: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (Fingertips), from Office for National Statistics, Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, NHS England and Care Quality Commission data.