Fact box: GP practices in Wigan

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GP practices in Wigan: patient survey and appointments

Wigan has 56 open GP practices, and 55 of them had enough answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey to be graded.

The 55 graded practices had 5,863 answers between them to the survey’s question on overall experience.

The Practice Grade 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. For Wigan as a whole, with every graded practice counting equally, it is 83.3, against 77.2 for England (likely range 82.4 to 83.9). Patients’ answers there, taken together, are clearly above the England average. On average, practices there are 6.1 points above the England average (likely range: 5.2 to 6.7 points above).

Of the 55 graded practices, 26 are clearly above the England average, which needs the whole margin of error for patients’ answers to lie above England’s figure.

Every practice in Wigan, with its Practice Grade, margin of error and number of answers: https://practicegrade.co.uk/area/wigan

The grade measures patients’ experience, how soon appointments take place and how many calls are answered, not the quality of clinical care. NHS England publishes the appointment and phone 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 and Cloud Based Telephony Data 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 Wigan: patient survey and appointments

Wigan has 56 open GP practices, and 55 of them had enough answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey to be graded.

The 55 graded practices had 5,863 answers between them to the survey’s question on overall experience.

The Practice Grade 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. For Wigan as a whole, with every graded practice counting equally, it is 83.3, against 77.2 for England (likely range 82.4 to 83.9). Patients’ answers there, taken together, are clearly above the England average. On average, practices there are 6.1 points above the England average (likely range: 5.2 to 6.7 points above).

Of the 55 graded practices, 26 are clearly above the England average, which needs the whole margin of error for patients’ answers to lie above England’s figure.

Every practice in Wigan, with its Practice Grade, margin of error and number of answers: https://practicegrade.co.uk/area/wigan

The grade measures patients’ experience, how soon appointments take place and how many calls are answered, not the quality of clinical care. NHS England publishes the appointment and phone 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 and Cloud Based Telephony Data 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 Wigan among other areas: there is no ranking of areas.

GP practices in Wigan · 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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