Fact box: GP practices in West Suffolk

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GP practices in West Suffolk: patient survey and appointments

West Suffolk has 19 open GP practices, and all of them had enough answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey to be rated.

The 19 rated practices had 2,148 answers between them to the survey’s question on overall experience.

The Practice score weighs two NHS measures: the share of patients who describe their practice as good (70%) and the share of appointments that take place within two weeks of booking (30%). For West Suffolk as a whole, with every rated practice counting equally, it is 83.7, against 80.0 for England (95% interval 81.7 to 85.0). That is clearly above the England average. On average, practices there are 3.7 points above the England average (95% interval: 1.7 to 5.0 points above).

Of the 19 rated practices, 8 are clearly above the England average, which needs the whole of a practice’s margin of error to lie above it.

Every practice in West Suffolk, with its Practice score, margin of error and number of answers: https://practicegrade.co.uk/area/west-suffolk

The rating measures patients’ experience and how soon appointments take place, not the quality of clinical care. NHS England publishes the appointment data as official statistics in development.

Source: Practice Grade (practicegrade.co.uk), using the 2026 GP Patient Survey, run by Ipsos for NHS England, and NHS England’s Appointments in General Practice.
Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence
2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/

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GP practices in West Suffolk: patient survey and appointments

West Suffolk has 19 open GP practices, and all of them had enough answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey to be rated.

The 19 rated practices had 2,148 answers between them to the survey’s question on overall experience.

The Practice score weighs two NHS measures: the share of patients who describe their practice as good (70%) and the share of appointments that take place within two weeks of booking (30%). For West Suffolk as a whole, with every rated practice counting equally, it is 83.7, against 80.0 for England (95% interval 81.7 to 85.0). That is clearly above the England average. On average, practices there are 3.7 points above the England average (95% interval: 1.7 to 5.0 points above).

Of the 19 rated practices, 8 are clearly above the England average, which needs the whole of a practice’s margin of error to lie above it.

Every practice in West Suffolk, with its Practice score, margin of error and number of answers: https://practicegrade.co.uk/area/west-suffolk

The rating measures patients’ experience and how soon appointments take place, not the quality of clinical care. NHS England publishes the appointment data as official statistics in development.

Source: Practice Grade (practicegrade.co.uk), using the 2026 GP Patient Survey, run by Ipsos for NHS England, and NHS England’s Appointments in General Practice.
Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence
2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/

What the box leaves out, on purpose

It names no practice. Each practice’s own figures are on its page and on the area page.
It has no list or count of the practices whose results are below the England average.
It does not place West Suffolk among other areas: there is no ranking of areas.

GP practices in West Suffolk · For journalists

Sources

2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0

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