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Which GP practice is best for you?

Tell us your area and what matters to you. We show the area’s practices in the order that suits you, grouped by how they compare with England, and explain why.

Your council area, for example Leeds or Camden. Not sure? Search by postcode: every practice page names its area.

Step 2 of 2. What matters to you?

Tap what matters most. The star marks what matters most of all. If you pick nothing, we order by the Practice Grade.

Ready-made choice

  • For you if you need care often, for example with a long-term condition. Seeing the same GP or nurse weighs the most, and the wait counts too. Under each practice you also see how many patients have a professional they prefer, whether they knew the next step, and how soon routine appointments were booked.

GP practices in Cumberland

24 practices, in groups by their label, which comes from the Practice Grade and its margin of error, never from your choices. Within each group, the practice that fits the Practice Grade best comes first. There are no places: practices next to each other are often within each other’s margin of error.

Clearly above the England average (9)

Their Practice Grade is above England’s by more than its margin of error.

  1. Aspatria Medical Group
    Practice Grade
    likely range 89.0 to 93.8, 119 survey answers
  2. Caldbeck Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.9 to 91.1, 137 survey answers
  3. Distington Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 84.9 to 89.9, 144 survey answers
  4. Silloth Group Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 82.9 to 89.0, 100 survey answers
  5. Waterloo House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.7 to 87.4, 158 survey answers
  6. Longtown Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.0 to 86.5, 111 survey answers
  7. The Croft Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.2 to 86.6, 129 survey answers
  8. Mansion House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.0 to 85.1, 104 survey answers
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  1. Seascale Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 76.1 to 83.8, 125 survey answers

Cannot be told apart from the England average (12)

Their Practice Grade cannot be told apart from England’s within its margin of error.

  1. Spencer St Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.0 to 92.3, 115 survey answers
  2. Westcroft House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 72.8 to 82.5, 110 survey answers
  3. Castlehead Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 69.0 to 83.2, 100 survey answers
  4. Warwick Square Group Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 68.9 to 81.3, 103 survey answers
  5. Wigton Group Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 69.4 to 80.9, 118 survey answers
  6. Brampton Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 61.1 to 84.0, 109 survey answers
  7. Dalston Medical Group
    Practice Grade
    likely range 70.4 to 78.0, 117 survey answers
  8. Lowther Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 60.6 to 83.6, 108 survey answers
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  1. Carlisle Healthcare
    Practice Grade
    likely range 37.7 to 85.5, 108 survey answers
  2. Castlegate and Derwent Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 60.9 to 79.5, 142 survey answers
  3. James Street Group Pract
    Practice Grade
    likely range 55.6 to 82.4, 160 survey answers
  4. Fellview Healthcare
    Practice Grade
    likely range 48.0 to 83.3, 106 survey answers

Other practices in Cumberland

These have no label: some have too few survey answers to be graded, some are for one group of patients, and for others the margin of error does not support either label. They are listed A to Z, not by your choices. Each practice’s page has its figures.

Show all 3 practices, A to Z

Questions and answers

How do you put the practices in order?

You pick what matters to you, and we order the practices in your area by how their patients answered the GP Patient Survey questions on those things. A star counts twice. If you pick nothing, we order by the Practice Grade. The order is inside groups: practices clearly above the England average first, then practices that cannot be told apart from it, then the rest from A to Z.

Why are there no places or rank numbers?

Every survey figure has a margin of error, and practices next to each other in the list can often not be told apart. The order helps you find practices worth a closer look; the label says what the figures can support.

What if a practice has no figure for something I picked?

It is ordered on the things it has figures for, so a missing figure never counts against it. A practice with no figure for any of your choices comes last in its group. Too few answers to a question also means no figure.

Do my choices change a practice’s label?

No. The label comes from the Practice Grade and its margin of error, the same as on the practice’s own page. Your choices only change the order inside each group.

Where do the figures come from?

The Practice Grade comes from the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data. The questions you pick come from the 2026 GP Patient Survey, run by Ipsos for NHS England, and how soon routine appointments were booked from NHS England’s Appointments in General Practice. Each practice page shows every figure with its source.

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

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