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Pick two to four practices. Each column shows the Practice Grade with its likely range and the number of answers, the other survey questions, and facts from NHS England. We point a practice out as higher only when the survey can show it. Otherwise we say they cannot be told apart.

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Hucknall Road Medical Centre and The Alice Medical Centre 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.

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MeasureHucknall Road Medical CentreNG5 1NA×The Alice Medical CentreNG5 5HW×
Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data)
Practice Grade75.7likely range 63.2 to 84.397 survey answers79.2likely range 75.6 to 82.1107 survey answers
Label (against the England average)Cannot be told apart from the England averageCannot be told apart from the England average
Patients who describe the practice as good74.6%likely range 56.8% to 86.8%, 97 answers79.3%likely range 75.1% to 82.9%, 107 answers
Access (mean of the two below)78.2%likely range 74.0% to 81.8%78.9%likely range 71.8% to 83.7%
Appointments within two weeks of booking80.8%likely range 74.9% to 85.7%, 3,105 appointments87.2%likely range 75.9% to 93.7%, 845 appointments
Calls answered by the practice75.5%likely range 69.4% to 80.7%, 4,624 calls70.4%likely range 61.9% to 77.7%, 2,625 calls
More survey questions (not part of the grade)
Getting through on the phone39.9%likely range 24.3% to 57.9%, 95 answers64.8%likely range 59.8% to 69.5%, 98 answers
Reception and admin team78.1%likely range 60.1% to 89.4%, 93 answers88.7%likely range 85.1% to 91.5%, 102 answers
Having a preferred professional23.1%likely range 11.5% to 40.9%, 96 answers39.2%likely range 34.5% to 44.1%, 106 answers
Seeing your preferred professionalNot shown: fewer than 30 answers30.4%likely range 23.7% to 38.1%, 42 answers
Knowing the next step79.7%likely range 61.2% to 90.7%, 88 answers83.3%likely range 79.2% to 86.7%, 100 answers
Contacting the practice60.0%likely range 42.1% to 75.5%, 96 answers77.6%likely range 73.2% to 81.4%, 104 answers
Wait for an appointment56.6%likely range 37.4% to 74.1%, 80 answers79.0%likely range 74.4% to 82.9%, 94 answers
Being listened to79.5%likely range 61.6% to 90.4%, 93 answers88.7%likely range 85.2% to 91.5%, 103 answers
Care and concern80.7%likely range 62.9% to 91.1%, 93 answers86.8%likely range 83.1% to 89.9%, 101 answers
Confidence and trust84.4%likely range 66.9% to 93.6%, 91 answers92.7%likely range 89.6% to 94.9%, 102 answers
Involvement in decisions91.8%likely range 75.4% to 97.6%, 87 answers88.0%likely range 84.4% to 90.9%, 101 answers
Needs met81.6%likely range 63.8% to 91.7%, 92 answers89.3%likely range 85.8% to 92.0%, 102 answers
Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade)
Babies at 8 months86.7%likely range 79.2% to 91.8%, 113 patients88.9%likely range 76.5% to 95.2%, 45 patients
Children at 18 months83.2%likely range 75.5% to 88.8%, 119 patients66.7%likely range 51.6% to 79.0%, 42 patients
Children at 5 years77.0%likely range 69.3% to 83.2%, 139 patients60.8%likely range 47.1% to 73.0%, 51 patients
Women aged 25 to 4960.0%likely range 58.0% to 62.0%, 2,359 patients63.7%likely range 60.5% to 66.8%, 887 patients
Women aged 50 to 6471.6%likely range 68.9% to 74.2%, 1,114 patients74.8%likely range 69.7% to 79.2%, 321 patients
Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade)
Registered patients12,829August 20264,473August 2026
Primary care networkBestwood and Sherwood PCNBestwood and Sherwood PCN
Phone0115 96066520115 9857944
Friends and Family Test (its own feedback)92.2% good or very good206 answers, June 202692.1% good or very good127 answers, June 2026
Appointments (one month)5,400 in August 2026Same day 39.6%; face to face 52.4%1,797 in August 2026Same day 35.1%; face to face 85.3%
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year)0.82England 0.74, April 2025 to March 20260.63England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026
GPs (full-time equivalent)10.7 qualified permanent13.7 including trainees and locums1,202 patients per permanent GP1.5 qualified permanent2.9 including trainees and locums2,960 patients per permanent GP
CQC rating (a separate source)GoodGood

“Clearly higher” appears only when a practice’s likely range lies wholly above every other practice’s here. When the ranges 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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How to read it

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. That is why a bigger number alone never gets a mark here. How we grade.

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
  • 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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