Which GP practice in Hastings has the highest grade?

Priory Road Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Hastings, 87.2 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 Hastings?

8 open GP practices that you can register with, 8 of them with a Practice Grade.

How soon do practices in Hastings see patients?

In the latest month 92.2% of appointments at practices in Hastings took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.

How do I change GP practice in Hastings?

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 Hastings 2026

8 GP practices in Hastings (South East), 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.

Priory Road Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Hastings, 87.2 out of 100. Hastings as a whole: 77.5, 0.3 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 Hastings

GP practices in Hastings

Sorted by the Practice Grade, highest first

Practice	Practice Grade	Response rate	Survey answers
1Priory Road SurgeryTop-rated in Hastings 2026	87.2	22.3%	108
2South Saxon House Surgery	85.1	25.9%	123
3Carisbrooke Surgery	84.8	32.2%	121
4Sedlescombe House	84.4	29.4%	105
5High Glades Medical Centre	77.7	26.6%	105
6The Station Practice	74.2	21.3%	104
7Hastings Old Town Surgery	64.5	24.8%	103
8The Hill Surgery	62.1	30.5%	126

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.

Flu vaccination in East Sussex, winter 2025 to 2026

75.8% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in East Sussex had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (115,311 of 152,058). England: 74.5%.

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

Who	East Sussex	England
Aged 65 and over115,311 of 152,058	75.8%	74.5%
Under 65 in a clinical risk group36,907 of 86,446	42.7%	40.6%
Pregnant women2,168 of 5,148	42.1%	38.4%
Children aged 22,110 of 4,486	47.0%	43.5%
Children aged 32,327 of 4,825	48.2%	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 Hastings, August 2026

92.2% of the 25,753 appointments at 8 practices in Hastings 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.

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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.

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

Within reach of Hastings

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

The highest Practice Grade within 10 km is Martins Oak Surgery in Rother, 90.0, 8.3 km away.

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

Common questions

Which GP practice in Hastings has the highest grade?: Priory Road Surgery has the highest Practice Grade in Hastings, 87.2 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 Hastings?: 8 open GP practices that you can register with, 8 of them with a Practice Grade.
How soon do practices in Hastings see patients?: In the latest month 92.2% of appointments at practices in Hastings took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.
How do I change GP practice in Hastings?: 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 Hastings

Background

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

Residents: 91,219
Aged 65 and over: 21.1%
Aged 80 and over: 5.4%

Deprivation, income and life expectancy

Measure	Hastings	England
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025)2025	37.3	21.8
Children under 16 in relative low income families2024/25, likely range 23.4 to 25.3	24.4%	19.8%
Life expectancy at birth, men2022 to 2024, likely range 75.8 to 77.3	76.6 years	79.5 years
Life expectancy at birth, women2022 to 2024, likely range 80.9 to 82.2	81.6 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 Hastings

Background

Background on people aged 65 and over in Hastings, 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	Hastings	England
Emergency hospital admissions for falls, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 2,277 to 2,726	2,494	1,958
Hip fractures, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 516 to 743	622	536
Estimated dementia diagnosis rate, people aged 65 and over2026, as at 31 March, likely range 57.6 to 72.3	65.4%	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	Hastings	England
Care home beds per 100 people aged 75 and over2025	15.9	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	Hastings	England
Life expectancy at 65, men2022 to 2024, likely range 17.0 to 17.8	17.4 years	18.9 years
Life expectancy at 65, women2022 to 2024, likely range 19.8 to 20.7	20.2 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.