Which GP practice in East Hertfordshire has the highest grade?

Much Hadham Health Centre has the highest Practice Grade in East Hertfordshire, 89.4 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 East Hertfordshire?

12 open GP practices that you can register with, 10 of them with a Practice Grade.

How do I change GP practice in East Hertfordshire?

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 East Hertfordshire 2026

12 GP practices in East Hertfordshire (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.

Much Hadham Health Centre has the highest Practice Grade in East Hertfordshire, 89.4 out of 100. East Hertfordshire as a whole: 79.2, 2.0 points above 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 East Hertfordshire

GP practices in East Hertfordshire

Sorted by the Practice Grade, highest first

Practice	Practice Grade	Response rate	Survey answers
1Much Hadham Health CentreTop-rated in East Hertfordshire 2026Top 10% in England 2026	89.4	38.7%	108
2Dolphin House Surgery	86.5	31.1%	103
3Hanscombe House Surgery	84.6	35.6%	120
4The Buntingford & Puckeridge Med Prac.	84.2	40.2%	108
4Watton Place Clinic	84.2	38.2%	113
6South Street Surgery	80.2	26.2%	118
7Helix Medical Centre	77.4	26.9%	110
8Central Surgery	75.3	23.8%	91
9New River Health	73.5	31.2%	112
10Lea Wharf Medical	70.0	28.9%	119
Church Street Partnership	66.4	29.3%	124
Gardens and Jacobs Medical PartnershipFor residents of the Gardens and Jacobs care centres in Sawbridgeworth	Too few survey answers	3.2%	–

Practices with exactly the same grade share a place and are listed A to Z. Practices next to each other are often so close that another year could swap them.

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 Hertfordshire, winter 2025 to 2026

76.6% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in Hertfordshire had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (178,623 of 233,191). England: 74.5%.

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

Who	Hertfordshire	England
Aged 65 and over178,623 of 233,191	76.6%	74.5%
Under 65 in a clinical risk group83,172 of 189,460	43.9%	40.6%
Pregnant women5,349 of 13,729	39.0%	38.4%
Children aged 26,282 of 12,920	48.6%	43.5%
Children aged 36,903 of 13,944	49.5%	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 East Hertfordshire, August 2026

84.1% of the 42,070 appointments at 11 practices in East Hertfordshire 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 East Hertfordshire, August 2026

About 640 people finished a course of NHS Talking Therapies in the NHS area that covers East Hertfordshire in August 2026. Of them, 69% started treatment within 6 weeks of referral and 93% within 18 weeks. The national standards are 75% and 95%.

East Hertfordshire is covered by NHS Central East ICB (sub-ICB 06K).

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 East Hertfordshire 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.

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

Within reach of East Hertfordshire

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

Much Hadham Health Centre2.3 km89.4
Dolphin House Surgery5.8 km86.5
New River Health5.9 km73.5
The Buntingford & Puckeridge Med Prac.6.0 km84.2
Central Surgery7.6 km75.3
Hailey View SurgeryBroxbourne7.8 km76.8
Addison House - Haque PracticeHarlow7.9 km54.6
Old Harlow Health CentreHarlow8.5 km84.6

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

Common questions

Which GP practice in East Hertfordshire has the highest grade?: Much Hadham Health Centre has the highest Practice Grade in East Hertfordshire, 89.4 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 East Hertfordshire?: 12 open GP practices that you can register with, 10 of them with a Practice Grade.
How soon do practices in East Hertfordshire see patients?: In the latest month 84.1% of appointments at practices in East Hertfordshire took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.
How do I change GP practice in East Hertfordshire?: 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 East Hertfordshire

Background

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

Residents: 156,875
Aged 65 and over: 18.9%
Aged 80 and over: 5.4%

Deprivation, income and life expectancy

Measure	East Hertfordshire	England
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025)2025	9.8	21.8
Children under 16 in relative low income families2024/25, likely range 7.2 to 8.1	7.6%	19.8%
Life expectancy at birth, men2022 to 2024, likely range 81.5 to 82.5	82.0 years	79.5 years
Life expectancy at birth, women2022 to 2024, likely range 85.1 to 86.1	85.6 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 East Hertfordshire

Background

Background on people aged 65 and over in East Hertfordshire, 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	East Hertfordshire	England
Emergency hospital admissions for falls, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 1,592 to 1,887	1,735	1,958
Hip fractures, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 410 to 568	484	536
Estimated dementia diagnosis rate, people aged 65 and over2026, as at 31 March, likely range 48.1 to 60.0	54.5%	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	East Hertfordshire	England
Care home beds per 100 people aged 75 and over2025	8.0	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	East Hertfordshire	England
Life expectancy at 65, men2022 to 2024, likely range 19.7 to 20.5	20.1 years	18.9 years
Life expectancy at 65, women2022 to 2024, likely range 22.3 to 23.0	22.7 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.