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Boothstown Medical Centre and Dr Vardhan's Surgery cannot be told apart on the Practice Grade. The likely ranges overlap, so the data does not show that one is ahead of the other, whatever the two numbers are.
The Practice Grade is the same figure as on each practice’s page, with its margin of error. Two practices whose margins overlap cannot be told apart, however far apart the two numbers look, so a bigger number alone never gets a mark here. How we grade.
| Measure | Boothstown Medical CentreM29 8RZ× | Dr Vardhan's SurgeryM29 7HG× |
|---|---|---|
| Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data) | ||
| Practice Grade | 70.4likely range 61.4 to 77.998 survey answers | 78.5likely range 73.5 to 82.8108 survey answers |
| Label (against the England average) | Patients: cannot be told apart from the England average | Patients: clearly above the England average |
| Patients who describe the practice as good | 68.3%likely range 55.6% to 78.7%, 98 answers | 82.5%likely range 78.6% to 85.9%, 108 answers |
| Access (mean of the two below) | 75.3%likely range 68.9% to 80.5% | 69.0%likely range 54.9% to 80.8% |
| Appointments within two weeks of booking | 77.5%likely range 67.7% to 85.0%, 1,337 appointments | 57.5%likely range 31.4% to 80.0%, 186 appointments |
| Calls answered by the practice | 73.1%likely range 64.7% to 80.1%, 2,591 calls | 80.3%likely range 69.8% to 87.8%, 1,540 calls |
| More survey questions (not part of the grade) | ||
| Getting through on the phone | 45.3%likely range 32.7% to 58.5%, 89 answers | 81.8%likely range 77.7% to 85.4%, 102 answers |
| Reception and admin team | 82.5%likely range 70.5% to 90.3%, 93 answers | 89.7%likely range 86.4% to 92.4%, 106 answers |
| Having a preferred professional | 30.9%likely range 20.5% to 43.6%, 97 answers | 34.6%likely range 30.1% to 39.3%, 108 answers |
| Seeing your preferred professional | 43.9%likely range 24.7% to 65.0%, 34 answers | 52.6%likely range 44.8% to 60.2%, 43 answers |
| Knowing the next step | 72.8%likely range 60.0% to 82.7%, 94 answers | 86.6%likely range 82.9% to 89.6%, 104 answers |
| Contacting the practice | 59.5%likely range 46.7% to 71.1%, 97 answers | 85.3%likely range 81.5% to 88.4%, 105 answers |
| Wait for an appointment | 52.0%likely range 38.8% to 65.0%, 87 answers | 79.1%likely range 74.7% to 82.9%, 99 answers |
| Being listened to | 86.0%likely range 74.8% to 92.8%, 95 answers | 86.5%likely range 82.7% to 89.5%, 103 answers |
| Care and concern | 86.3%likely range 75.0% to 93.0%, 94 answers | 83.5%likely range 79.4% to 86.9%, 101 answers |
| Confidence and trust | 94.6%likely range 85.3% to 98.2%, 92 answers | 93.7%likely range 90.8% to 95.7%, 100 answers |
| Involvement in decisions | 86.7%likely range 75.2% to 93.3%, 90 answers | 94.5%likely range 91.7% to 96.4%, 96 answers |
| Needs met | 87.2%likely range 76.1% to 93.5%, 95 answers | 94.6%likely range 91.9% to 96.4%, 103 answers |
| Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade) | ||
| Babies at 8 months | 96.0%likely range 90.2% to 98.4%, 100 patients | 92.7%likely range 80.6% to 97.5%, 41 patients |
| Children at 18 months | 87.1%likely range 80.1% to 91.9%, 124 patients | 93.3%likely range 78.7% to 98.2%, 30 patients |
| Children at 5 years | 85.5%likely range 78.2% to 90.6%, 124 patients | 89.6%likely range 77.8% to 95.5%, 48 patients |
| Women aged 25 to 49 | 77.7%likely range 75.6% to 79.7%, 1,567 patients | 76.4%likely range 72.8% to 79.6%, 597 patients |
| Women aged 50 to 64 | 79.1%likely range 75.9% to 82.0%, 671 patients | 81.6%likely range 77.0% to 85.5%, 316 patients |
| Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade) | ||
| Registered patients | 7,973August 2026 | 3,571August 2026 |
| Primary care network | Taba Wigan PCN | Taba Wigan PCN |
| Phone | 01942 483828 | 01942 883794 |
| Friends and Family Test (its own feedback) | 72.2% good or very good126 answers, June 2026 | 96.0% good or very good50 answers, June 2026 |
| Appointments (one month) | 2,288 in August 2026Same day 17.7%; face to face 81.4% | 953 in August 2026Same day 33.5%; face to face 69.2% |
| Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year) | 0.81England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026 | 0.70England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026 |
| GPs (full-time equivalent) | 2.9 qualified permanent2.9 including trainees and locums2,760 patients per permanent GP | 0.8 qualified permanent0.8 including trainees and locums |
| CQC rating (a separate source) | Good | Good |
“Clearly higher” appears only when a practice’s whole margin of error lies above every other practice’s here. When the margins overlap, the survey cannot tell the practices apart and nobody is pointed out. A practice never gets a mark for being lower.
The Practice Grade weighs the survey and access, from NHS appointment and phone data; the other survey questions are from the 2026 GP Patient Survey. The facts are from NHS England, the Care Quality Commission and OHID, are not part of the grade, and are shown as each practice’s own record. NHS England advises against ranking practices on the Friends and Family Test or on appointment figures, and we point nothing out in the facts, vaccination or screening rows.
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
Contains information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence. CQC must be acknowledged as the source of the data; CQC is not responsible for our analysis.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Antibiotic prescribing: UK Health Security Agency and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (Fingertips), from NHS Business Services Authority prescribing data.
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