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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 Dorset

37 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 (22)

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

  1. Puddletown Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 93.1 to 96.6, 121 survey answers
  2. Silton Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 90.5 to 94.9, 125 survey answers
  3. Milton Abbas Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 91.4 to 94.7, 120 survey answers
  4. The Cranborne Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.6 to 94.1, 107 survey answers
  5. The Barcellos Family Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.5 to 92.4, 121 survey answers
  6. Cerne Abbas Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.4 to 91.0, 113 survey answers
  7. Prince of Wales Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 82.4 to 90.5, 104 survey answers
  8. Orchid House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 84.2 to 91.0, 115 survey answers
Show all 22 in this group
  1. Yetminster Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 85.8 to 89.9, 114 survey answers
  2. The Bridges Medical Ctr.
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.2 to 90.0, 126 survey answers
  3. Bere Regis Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 84.0 to 88.8, 101 survey answers
  4. Poundbury Doctors Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 82.3 to 88.2, 118 survey answers
  5. Lyme Bay Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.3 to 88.6, 127 survey answers
  6. The Grove Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.2 to 87.8, 117 survey answers
  7. Corfe Castle Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.9 to 86.5, 130 survey answers
  8. Sandford Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.6 to 84.6, 109 survey answers
  9. Penny's Hill Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.5 to 85.2, 117 survey answers
  10. Fordington Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.1 to 84.4, 103 survey answers
  11. The Apples Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.7 to 84.0, 105 survey answers
  12. Barton House Med Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.0 to 83.4, 111 survey answers
  13. Queens Avenue Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 73.4 to 85.0, 104 survey answers
  14. Walford Mill Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.3 to 83.9, 110 survey answers

Cannot be told apart from the England average (14)

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

  1. Blackmore Vale Partnership
    Practice Grade
    likely range 70.1 to 90.4, 122 survey answers
  2. Weymouth Bay Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 69.4 to 87.5, 133 survey answers
  3. The Wellbridge Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.2 to 83.8, 116 survey answers
  4. The Verwood Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.5 to 84.4, 117 survey answers
  5. Wareham Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 74.9 to 83.2, 129 survey answers
  6. Swanage Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 68.9 to 83.8, 107 survey answers
  7. The Quarter Jack Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 63.4 to 83.7, 112 survey answers
  8. Royal Manor Health Care
    Practice Grade
    likely range 66.5 to 82.9, 111 survey answers
Show all 14 in this group
  1. West Moors Village Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 70.3 to 77.4, 120 survey answers
  2. The Blandford Group Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 65.7 to 80.4, 182 survey answers
  3. Cross Road Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 68.7 to 77.5, 134 survey answers
  4. Atrium Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 67.2 to 77.7, 103 survey answers
  5. Gillingham Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 63.3 to 79.8, 102 survey answers
  6. Ammonite Health Partnership
    Practice Grade
    likely range 51.3 to 80.8, 122 survey answers

Other practices in Dorset

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 the 1 practice, 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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