Which GP practice in Chelmsford has the highest grade?

Stock Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Chelmsford, 89.6 out of 100. Practices next to each other in the list are often so close that another year's answers could swap them.

How many GP practices are there in Chelmsford?

15 open GP practices that you can register with, 12 of them with a Practice Grade.

How soon do practices in Chelmsford see patients?

In the latest month 86.4% of appointments at practices in Chelmsford took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.

How do I change GP practice in Chelmsford?

It is free, and you do not have to tell your current practice. Most practices let you register online or in the NHS App.

Best GP practices in Chelmsford 2026

15 GP practices in Chelmsford (East of England), ranked by the Practice Grade. The grade weighs what patients say in the 2026 GP Patient Survey and how soon appointments take place. Practices with too few answers have no grade.

Stock Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Chelmsford, 89.6 out of 100. Chelmsford as a whole: 75.3, 1.9 points below the England average.

How the Practice Grade works

Updated with GP Patient Survey (2026 survey) and Appointments in General Practice (August 2026)

Compare the four best in Chelmsford

GP practices in Chelmsford

Sorted by the Practice Grade, highest first

Practice	Practice Grade	Response rate	Survey answers
1Stock SurgeryTop-rated in Chelmsford 2026Top 10% in England 2026	89.6	39.8%	111
2Whitley House Surgery	87.8	29.2%	117
3North Chelmsford NHS Hcc	86.7	23.7%	103
4Greenwood and Wyncroft Surgery	82.8	33.6%	119
5Baddow Village Surgery	81.7	37.0%	98
6Little Waltham & Gt Notley Surgery	80.5	31.3%	87
7Beauchamp House	78.8	30.4%	123
8The Laurels Surgery	76.5	32.5%	105
9Chelmer Medical Partnership	76.1	31.0%	115
10Kingsway Surgery	72.1	28.7%	103
11Rivermead Gate Med.ctr.	70.3	26.3%	126
12Beacon Health Group-Danbury Medical Ctr	56.4	28.5%	94
Chelmer Village Surgery	69.5	23.9%	89
Sutherland Lodge Surgery	56.0	25.8%	99
The Writtle Surgery	64.9	31.1%	106

The Practice Grade is on a scale of 0 to 100. The response rate and the number of survey answers show how large the base is: more answers give a surer grade. 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 Grade, not the grade itself. Practices with fewer than 3 yearly results are shown without a curve.

The practices without a place follow the ranked ones, A to Z, with their figures: those with too few survey answers, those that serve one group of patients, and those the grade cannot place clearly.

Flu vaccination in Essex, winter 2025 to 2026

74.2% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in Essex had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (249,454 of 336,233). England: 74.5%.

UKHSA publishes flu vaccine uptake for counties and unitary authorities, not for districts. These figures are for Essex, the county that Chelmsford is in.

Who	Essex	England
Aged 65 and over249,454 of 336,233	74.2%	74.5%
Under 65 in a clinical risk group91,732 of 235,091	39.0%	40.6%
Pregnant women5,214 of 21,628	24.1%	38.4%
Children aged 26,827 of 16,045	42.5%	43.5%
Children aged 37,326 of 17,032	43.0%	44.8%

The counts follow the GP practice, not where people live. They include vaccinations given in GP practices, pharmacies and other places that are recorded in the GP record. 99.3% of practices sent data. UKHSA says the number counted as pregnant may be too high, so uptake among pregnant women is probably understated.

This card shows flu only. We have not found local authority figures for last winter’s COVID-19 vaccination from UKHSA.

Source: UK Health Security Agency, Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in GP patients: winter season 2025 to 2026 (final data, published 28 May 2026). Open Government Licence v3.0.

Appointments within two weeks in Chelmsford, August 2026

86.4% of the 51,344 appointments at 15 practices in Chelmsford took place within two weeks of booking. England: 87.7%.

Source: NHS England, Appointments in General Practice. This is the appointments half of the grade’s access part.

Talking therapies for the NHS area covering Chelmsford, August 2026

About 265 people finished a course of NHS Talking Therapies in the NHS area that covers Chelmsford in August 2026. Of them, 92% started treatment within 6 weeks of referral and 100% within 18 weeks. The national standards are 75% and 95%.

Chelmsford is covered by NHS Essex ICB (sub-ICB 06Q).

England: 83.4% started within 6 weeks and 97.5% within 18 weeks (51,269 people finished a course in August 2026).

These figures are for the NHS area that commissions the service, not for Chelmsford and not for any GP practice. Most people refer themselves, so they say nothing about the quality of a practice.

Only people who finished a course in the month are counted, so people still waiting are not. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5, rates to the nearest whole per cent, and NHS England hides numbers under 5. One month can move by several points.

Source: NHS England Digital, NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics (August 2026, published 8 October 2026), Open Government Licence. Areas are matched to NHS areas with the Office for National Statistics lookup from neighbourhoods to sub-ICBs and local authorities (April 2026).

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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.

11 GP practices within 10 km, the nearest 8 shown.

Within reach of Chelmsford

11 GP practices within 10 km, the nearest 8 shown.

Baddow Village Surgery0.7 km81.7
Beauchamp House1.8 km78.8
Rivermead Gate Med.ctr.2.7 km70.3
North Chelmsford NHS Hcc2.8 km86.7
Whitley House Surgery3.2 km87.8
Chelmer Medical Partnership4.0 km76.1
The Laurels Surgery4.6 km76.5
Beacon Health Group-Danbury Medical Ctr5.9 km56.4

Distance as the crow flies from the middle of the practices in Chelmsford. A practice in another area may still cover your address: check its boundary before you register.

Common questions

Which GP practice in Chelmsford has the highest grade?: Stock Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Chelmsford, 89.6 out of 100. Practices next to each other in the list are often so close that another year's answers could swap them. How the grade works
How many GP practices are there in Chelmsford?: 15 open GP practices that you can register with, 12 of them with a Practice Grade.
How soon do practices in Chelmsford see patients?: In the latest month 86.4% of appointments at practices in Chelmsford took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.
How do I change GP practice in Chelmsford?: It is free, and you do not have to tell your current practice. Most practices let you register online or in the NHS App. Guide: changing GP practice

About Chelmsford

Background

Background on Chelmsford as context for the practices above. Not part of the Practice Grade.

Residents: 188,803
Aged 65 and over: 19.2%
Aged 80 and over: 5.5%

Deprivation, income and life expectancy

Measure	Chelmsford	England
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025)2025	13.1	21.8
Children under 16 in relative low income families2024/25, likely range 10.1 to 11.0	10.5%	19.8%
Life expectancy at birth, men2022 to 2024, likely range 80.8 to 81.8	81.3 years	79.5 years
Life expectancy at birth, women2022 to 2024, likely range 83.9 to 84.8	84.3 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 Chelmsford

Background

Background on people aged 65 and over in Chelmsford, with England beside it. No figure here says an area is doing better or worse. Not part of the Practice Grade.

Hospital care and dementia

Measure	Chelmsford	England
Emergency hospital admissions for falls, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 1,726 to 2,004	1,862	1,958
Hip fractures, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 576 to 742	655	536
Estimated dementia diagnosis rate, people aged 65 and over2026, as at 31 March, likely range 53.9 to 66.2	60.5%	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	Chelmsford	England
Care home beds per 100 people aged 75 and over2025	6.4	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	Chelmsford	England
Life expectancy at 65, men2022 to 2024, likely range 19.4 to 20.1	19.8 years	18.9 years
Life expectancy at 65, women2022 to 2024, likely range 21.6 to 22.2	21.9 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.