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Brace Street HC- Kumar’s Practice Grade is clearly higher than Brace Street Health Centre’s: its likely range lies wholly above.
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 | Brace Street Health CentreWS1 3PS× | Brace Street HC- KumarWS1 3PS× |
|---|---|---|
| Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data) | ||
| Practice Grade | 73.7likely range 69.4 to 77.398 survey answers | 91.2likely range 88.1 to 93.392 survey answersClearly higher |
| Label (against the England average) | No label | Patients: clearly above the England average |
| Patients who describe the practice as good | 69.4%likely range 64.4% to 73.9%, 98 answers | 90.8%likely range 87.0% to 93.5%, 92 answersClearly higher |
| Access (mean of the two below) | 83.7%likely range 75.4% to 89.0% | 91.9%likely range 86.7% to 94.9% |
| Appointments within two weeks of booking | 84.6%likely range 72.0% to 92.2%, 742 appointments | 97.6%likely range 91.8% to 99.3%, 1,301 appointments |
| Calls answered by the practice | 82.6%likely range 71.9% to 89.9%, 1,399 calls | 86.1%likely range 77.4% to 91.8%, 1,854 calls |
| More survey questions (not part of the grade) | ||
| Getting through on the phone | 57.7%likely range 52.5% to 62.9%, 94 answers | 88.8%likely range 84.7% to 91.9%, 90 answers |
| Reception and admin team | 75.3%likely range 70.5% to 79.5%, 96 answers | 88.4%likely range 84.3% to 91.6%, 91 answers |
| Having a preferred professional | 50.2%likely range 45.0% to 55.4%, 95 answers | 51.4%likely range 45.8% to 57.0%, 92 answers |
| Seeing your preferred professional | 46.5%likely range 39.1% to 54.1%, 47 answers | 51.7%likely range 44.3% to 59.0%, 54 answers |
| Knowing the next step | 72.5%likely range 67.4% to 77.1%, 88 answers | 86.1%likely range 81.7% to 89.6%, 90 answers |
| Contacting the practice | 66.1%likely range 60.9% to 70.8%, 95 answers | 83.3%likely range 78.7% to 87.1%, 92 answers |
| Wait for an appointment | 46.4%likely range 41.0% to 51.8%, 88 answers | 81.2%likely range 76.2% to 85.3%, 86 answers |
| Being listened to | 81.1%likely range 76.7% to 84.9%, 95 answers | 90.8%likely range 86.9% to 93.6%, 89 answers |
| Care and concern | 82.7%likely range 78.4% to 86.3%, 95 answers | 87.2%likely range 82.9% to 90.5%, 90 answers |
| Confidence and trust | 85.6%likely range 81.5% to 88.9%, 93 answers | 91.0%likely range 87.1% to 93.8%, 87 answers |
| Involvement in decisions | 93.2%likely range 89.9% to 95.4%, 92 answers | 90.4%likely range 86.3% to 93.4%, 81 answers |
| Needs met | 89.7%likely range 86.1% to 92.5%, 95 answers | 92.2%likely range 88.5% to 94.8%, 88 answers |
| Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade) | ||
| Babies at 8 months | 91.1%likely range 79.3% to 96.5%, 45 patients | 91.4%likely range 77.6% to 97.0%, 35 patients |
| Children at 18 months | 82.9%likely range 68.7% to 91.5%, 41 patients | 80.0%likely range 64.1% to 90.0%, 35 patients |
| Children at 5 years | 93.3%likely range 78.7% to 98.2%, 30 patients | 89.2%likely range 75.3% to 95.7%, 37 patients |
| Women aged 25 to 49 | 56.2%likely range 51.9% to 60.5%, 507 patients | 71.3%likely range 67.3% to 75.0%, 540 patients |
| Women aged 50 to 64 | 70.5%likely range 63.7% to 76.5%, 193 patients | 83.8%likely range 78.4% to 88.0%, 228 patients |
| Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade) | ||
| Registered patients | 2,945August 2026 | 3,241August 2026 |
| Primary care network | Walsall South 1 PCN | Walsall South 1 PCN |
| Phone | 01922 624605 | 01922 858979 |
| Friends and Family Test (its own feedback) | 96.3% good or very good27 answers, June 2026 | No results for June 2026 |
| Appointments (one month) | 1,072 in August 2026Same day 20.8%; face to face 64.5% | 1,497 in August 2026Same day 53.6%; face to face 67.1% |
| Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year) | 0.57England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026 | 0.95England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026 |
| GPs (full-time equivalent) | 2.3 qualified permanent2.3 including trainees and locums1,276 patients per permanent GP | 2.2 qualified permanent2.2 including trainees and locums1,500 patients per permanent GP |
| 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.
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2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
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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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