Local authority area
GP practices in Forest of Dean
10 open practices in this local authority area, 10 with enough survey answers to be rated.
Forest of Dean as a whole
England 77.2 · 95% interval 77.8 to 81.2
The area’s Practice score is the average over its 10 rated practices. On average they are 2.6 points above the England average (95% interval: 0.6 to 4.0 points above). 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.
Clearly above 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 Forest of Dean
Top-rated in Forest of Dean 2026: Yorkley Health Centre(wg). 1 practice in Forest of Dean is in the top 10% in England. How the awards work.
By Practice score, highest first, among the 10 practices in Forest of Dean 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 | Yorkley Health Centre(wg)Top-rated in Forest of Dean 2026 | 100 | 89.784.2 to 92.5 |
| 2 | Drybrook SurgeryClearly above the England average | 120 | 86.182.8 to 88.7 |
| 2 | Staunton & Corse SurgeryClearly above the England average | 113 | 86.181.6 to 89.2 |
| 4 | Severnbank SurgeryClearly above the England average | 95 | 85.782.4 to 88.2 |
| 5 | Mitcheldean SurgeryClearly above the England average | 103 | 79.574.3 to 83.4 |
| 6 | Dean Medical PracticeClearly above the England average | 115 | 79.176.9 to 81.0 |
| 7 | The Holts Health Centre | 115 | 74.465.3 to 80.9 |
| 8 | Forest Health Care | 105 | 74.163.7 to 82.0 |
| 9 | Dockham Surgery | 121 | 73.769.6 to 77.4 |
| 10 | Lydney Practice | 94 | 69.260.5 to 76.4 |
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.
Practices with exactly the same Practice score share a place, listed A to Z.
Only practices with a label are placed. Practices without one are in the full list below, with their figures.
All GP practices in Forest of Dean, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dean Medical PracticeClearly above the England average | 79.1 | 115 | 31.1% | 73.2% | |
Dockham SurgeryCannot be told apart from the England average | 73.7 | 121 | 35.3% | 77.4% | |
Drybrook SurgeryClearly above the England average | 86.1 | 120 | 35.3% | 68.6% | |
Forest Health CareCannot be told apart from the England average | 74.1 | 105 | 34.6% | 78.3% | |
Lydney PracticeCannot be told apart from the England average | 69.2 | 94 | 36.3% | 70.6% | |
Mitcheldean SurgeryClearly above the England average | 79.5 | 103 | 37.5% | 69.0% | |
Severnbank SurgeryClearly above the England average | 85.7 | 95 | 30.6% | 79.0% | |
Staunton & Corse SurgeryClearly above the England average | 86.1 | 113 | 35.5% | 73.7% | |
The Holts Health CentreCannot be told apart from the England average | 74.4 | 115 | 42.8% | 65.3% | |
Yorkley Health Centre(wg)Clearly above the England average | 89.7 | 100 | 37.8% | 82.2% |
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.
Forest of Dean 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