Which GP practice in Kensington and Chelsea has the highest grade?

Holland Park Surgery and The Chelsea Practice share the highest Practice Grade in Kensington and Chelsea, 92.4 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 Kensington and Chelsea?

32 open GP practices that you can register with, 30 of them with a Practice Grade.

How do I change GP practice in Kensington and Chelsea?

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 Kensington and Chelsea 2026

32 GP practices in Kensington and Chelsea (London), 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.

Holland Park Surgery and The Chelsea Practice share the highest Practice Grade in Kensington and Chelsea, 92.4 out of 100. Kensington and Chelsea as a whole: 85.0, 7.8 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 Kensington and Chelsea

GP practices in Kensington and Chelsea

Sorted by the Practice Grade, highest first

Practice	Practice Grade	Response rate	Survey answers
1Holland Park SurgeryTop-rated in Kensington and Chelsea 2026	92.4	16.7%	83
1The Chelsea PracticeTop-rated in Kensington and Chelsea 2026Top 10% in England 2026	92.4	17.0%	97
3Golborne Canalside Health CentreTop 10% in England 2026	91.5	12.2%	94
4Colville Health Centre	90.8	13.3%	93
5The Good PracticeTop 10% in England 2026	89.6	15.2%	127
5The SurgeryTop 10% in England 2026	89.6	14.8%	102
7The Abingdon Health Centre	88.3	19.0%	99
8The Golborne Medical Centre	87.9	9.0%	65
9The Notting Hill Medical Centre	87.1	20.1%	109
10The Pembridge Villas Surgery	86.7	14.9%	119
11Health Partners at Violet Melchett	85.9	17.8%	130
11Meanwhile Garden Medical Centre	85.9	12.9%	96
11Stanhope Mews Surgery	85.9	15.6%	121
14Earls Court Surgery	85.7	13.9%	104
15North Kensington Medical Centre	85.1	18.4%	105
16Emperor's Gate Surgery	84.7	15.5%	119
16Knightsbridge Medical Centre	84.7	14.6%	111
18Kensington Park Medical Centre	84.6	12.2%	121
18Portland Road Practice	84.6	20.4%	128
20The Exmoor Surgery	84.4	11.6%	103
21Scarsdale Medical Centre	84.3	12.5%	106
22Rosary Garden Surgery	84.1	12.7%	115
23Earls Court Medical Centre	83.9	9.2%	90
24Portobello Medical Centre	82.2	15.8%	129
25Brompton Medical Centre	82.0	8.7%	90
26Kings Road Medical Centre	79.6	7.7%	84
27St. Quintin Health Centre	78.7	16.7%	108
28The Foreland Medical Centre	77.2	13.6%	100
29Health and Wellbeing Centre, Earls Court	72.3	7.9%	85
30Barlby Surgery	69.5	10.6%	98
Royal Hospital ChelseaFor Chelsea Pensioners living at the Royal Hospital Chelsea	92.2	44.0%	92
Westbourne Grove Medical Centre	No survey result	–	–

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 Kensington and Chelsea, winter 2025 to 2026

53.4% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in Kensington and Chelsea had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (16,408 of 30,742). England: 74.5%.

Who	Kensington and Chelsea	England
Aged 65 and over16,408 of 30,742	53.4%	74.5%
Under 65 in a clinical risk group6,483 of 23,476	27.6%	40.6%
Pregnant women590 of 1,882	31.3%	38.4%
Children aged 2505 of 1,531	33.0%	43.5%
Children aged 3476 of 1,551	30.7%	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 Kensington and Chelsea, August 2026

94.2% of the 84,457 appointments at 31 practices in Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea, August 2026

About 2,170 people finished a course of NHS Talking Therapies in the NHS area that covers Kensington and Chelsea in August 2026. Of them, 93% started treatment within 6 weeks of referral and 100% within 18 weeks. The national standards are 75% and 95%.

Kensington and Chelsea is covered by NHS West and North London ICB (sub-ICB W2U3Z).

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 Kensington and Chelsea 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.

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

Within reach of Kensington and Chelsea

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

The highest Practice Grade within 10 km is Brook Green Medical Centre in Hammersmith and Fulham, 93.9, 2.0 km away.

Holland Park Surgery0.2 km92.4
Scarsdale Medical Centre0.5 km84.3
The Abingdon Health Centre0.8 km88.3
The Surgery1.0 km89.6
Emperor's Gate Surgery1.0 km84.7
Portland Road Practice1.0 km84.6
The Pembridge Villas Surgery1.1 km86.7
Kensington Park Medical Centre1.2 km84.6

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

Common questions

Which GP practice in Kensington and Chelsea has the highest grade?: Holland Park Surgery and The Chelsea Practice share the highest Practice Grade in Kensington and Chelsea, 92.4 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 Kensington and Chelsea?: 32 open GP practices that you can register with, 30 of them with a Practice Grade.
How soon do practices in Kensington and Chelsea see patients?: In the latest month 94.2% of appointments at practices in Kensington and Chelsea took place within two weeks of booking, against 87.7% in England.
How do I change GP practice in Kensington and Chelsea?: 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 Kensington and Chelsea

Background

Background on Kensington and Chelsea as context for the practices above. Not part of the Practice Grade.

Residents: 144,518
Aged 65 and over: 15.4%
Aged 80 and over: 4.0%

Deprivation, income and life expectancy

Measure	Kensington and Chelsea	England
Deprivation score (Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025)2025	20.3	21.8
Children under 16 in relative low income families2024/25, likely range 7.5 to 8.6	8.0%	19.8%
Life expectancy at birth, men2022 to 2024, likely range 81.6 to 82.8	82.2 years	79.5 years
Life expectancy at birth, women2022 to 2024, likely range 86.5 to 87.7	87.1 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 Kensington and Chelsea

Background

Background on people aged 65 and over in Kensington and Chelsea, 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	Kensington and Chelsea	England
Emergency hospital admissions for falls, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 2,342 to 2,770	2,549	1,958
Hip fractures, per 100,000 people aged 65 and over2024/25, age-standardised, likely range 420 to 616	511	536
Estimated dementia diagnosis rate, people aged 65 and over2026, as at 31 March, likely range 50.7 to 63.0	57.3%	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	Kensington and Chelsea	England
Care home beds per 100 people aged 75 and over2025	3.6	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	Kensington and Chelsea	England
Life expectancy at 65, men2022 to 2024, likely range 20.0 to 21.0	20.5 years	18.9 years
Life expectancy at 65, women2022 to 2024, likely range 23.4 to 24.4	23.9 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.