Local authority area
GP practices in Folkestone and Hythe
15 open practices in this local authority area, 15 with enough survey answers to be rated.
Folkestone and Hythe as a whole
England 77.2 · 95% interval 68.9 to 72.1
The area’s Practice score is the average over its 15 rated practices. On average they are 6.6 points below the England average (95% interval: 5.1 to 8.3 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 Folkestone and Hythe
Top-rated in Folkestone and Hythe 2026: Church Road. 1 practice in Folkestone and Hythe is in the top 10% in England. How the awards work.
By Practice score, highest first, among the 9 practices in Folkestone and Hythe 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 | Church RoadTop-rated in Folkestone and Hythe 2026 | 125 | 89.386.6 to 91.3 |
| 2 | Oak HallClearly above the England average | 125 | 80.577.4 to 83.0 |
| 3 | Sun Lane | 110 | 75.971.6 to 79.7 |
| 4 | Martello Health Centre | 108 | 74.669.8 to 78.7 |
| 5 | Manor Clinic | 118 | 73.766.2 to 80.1 |
| 6 | New Lyminge Surgery | 122 | 73.469.8 to 76.4 |
| 7 | Hawkinge and Elham | 97 | 72.463.7 to 79.1 |
| 8 | Oaklands Health Centre | 124 | 72.264.7 to 78.3 |
| 9 | Guildhall Street Surgery | 114 | 72.064.5 to 77.9 |
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 Folkestone and Hythe, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
61.3 | 119 | 37.5% | 75.8% | ||
Church RoadClearly above the England average | 89.3 | 125 | 46.0% | 74.3% | |
Guildhall Street SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 72.0 | 114 | 23.5% | 66.8% | |
57.3 | 102 | 27.0% | 78.0% | ||
Hawkinge and ElhamCannot be told apart from the England average | 72.4 | 97 | 28.0% | 68.4% | |
Manor ClinicCannot be told apart from the England average | 73.7 | 118 | 26.6% | 84.5% | |
Martello Health CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 74.6 | 108 | 36.2% | 76.4% | |
New Lyminge SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 73.4 | 122 | 41.4% | 68.9% | |
Oak HallClearly above the England average | 80.5 | 125 | 41.3% | 77.2% | |
Oaklands Health CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 72.2 | 124 | 40.9% | 72.8% | |
61.3 | 105 | 31.8% | 71.4% | ||
65.9 | 110 | 31.9% | 69.8% | ||
Sun LaneCannot be told apart from the England average | 75.9 | 110 | 35.7% | 85.0% | |
58.0 | 88 | 24.8% | 78.9% | ||
71.0 | 110 | 30.9% | 85.1% |
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.
Folkestone and Hythe on the map
- Clearly above the England average
- Rated
- Not rated
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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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)
- 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