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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.

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  • 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 Sefton

40 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. Liverpool Rd Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.3 to 93.6, 105 survey answers
  2. The Corner Surgery (Dr Mulla)
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.1 to 91.6, 108 survey answers
  3. Ainsdale Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 80.4 to 93.1, 122 survey answers
  4. The Marshside Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.2 to 91.1, 121 survey answers
  5. Grange Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.8 to 89.9, 114 survey answers
  6. Ainsdale Village Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.1 to 88.3, 88 survey answers
  7. Maghull Family Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.9 to 87.7, 118 survey answers
  8. Kingsway Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.6 to 87.7, 128 survey answers
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  1. Eastview Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.1 to 88.1, 113 survey answers

Cannot be told apart from the England average (20)

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

  1. Blundellsands Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 71.9 to 91.5, 93 survey answers
  2. The Village Surgery Formby
    Practice Grade
    likely range 69.6 to 91.2, 105 survey answers
  3. Christiana Hartley Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 76.4 to 89.6, 128 survey answers
  4. The Strand Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.5 to 88.2, 117 survey answers
  5. Chapel Lane Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 71.1 to 89.6, 105 survey answers
  6. 42 Kingsway
    Practice Grade
    likely range 74.2 to 86.9, 120 survey answers
  7. Aintree Road Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.6 to 83.6, 115 survey answers
  8. The Family Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 74.6 to 86.6, 98 survey answers
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  1. Concept House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 76.4 to 85.3, 115 survey answers
  2. Churchtown Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 74.5 to 86.0, 127 survey answers
  3. Cumberland House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 64.6 to 88.9, 90 survey answers
  4. Park Street Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 70.9 to 86.5, 95 survey answers
  5. Bootle Village Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 72.8 to 84.5, 95 survey answers
  6. Rawson Road Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.4 to 82.3, 106 survey answers
  7. Kew Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 72.3 to 83.4, 92 survey answers
  8. Norwood Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 66.5 to 83.2, 110 survey answers
  9. Bridge Road Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 68.3 to 81.4, 120 survey answers
  10. Westway Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 65.8 to 81.2, 113 survey answers
  11. High Pastures Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 62.0 to 80.0, 109 survey answers
  12. St Marks Medical Centre (Tcg Medical)
    Practice Grade
    likely range 50.3 to 84.3, 106 survey answers

Other practices in Sefton

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 11 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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