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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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Marton Medical Practice and Layton 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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MeasureMarton Medical PracticeFY3 9ES×Layton Medical CentreFY3 7EN×
Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data)
Practice Grade73.4likely range 65.5 to 79.9113 survey answers73.7likely range 65.3 to 80.3100 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 good71.0%likely range 59.8% to 80.1%, 113 answers73.2%likely range 61.5% to 82.5%, 100 answers
Access (mean of the two below)79.0%likely range 74.8% to 82.3%74.6%likely range 69.3% to 78.9%
Appointments within two weeks of booking92.5%likely range 87.2% to 95.7%, 2,313 appointmentsClearly higher78.4%likely range 70.4% to 84.6%, 1,931 appointments
Calls answered by the practice65.4%likely range 59.0% to 71.2%, 4,786 calls70.8%likely range 63.9% to 76.8%, 3,923 calls
More survey questions (not part of the grade)
Getting through on the phone56.3%likely range 44.6% to 67.2%, 107 answers34.1%likely range 23.7% to 46.4%, 97 answers
Reception and admin team83.3%likely range 73.0% to 90.2%, 109 answers70.6%likely range 58.7% to 80.2%, 100 answers
Having a preferred professional34.5%likely range 24.6% to 45.8%, 112 answers33.9%likely range 23.7% to 46.0%, 100 answers
Seeing your preferred professional41.4%likely range 24.4% to 60.7%, 39 answers27.4%likely range 12.6% to 49.8%, 31 answers
Knowing the next step76.5%likely range 65.5% to 84.8%, 109 answers85.1%likely range 74.0% to 91.9%, 92 answers
Contacting the practice66.9%likely range 55.4% to 76.7%, 109 answers71.0%likely range 59.0% to 80.6%, 99 answers
Wait for an appointment67.7%likely range 55.7% to 77.8%, 100 answers67.5%likely range 55.0% to 77.9%, 94 answers
Being listened to85.5%likely range 75.6% to 91.8%, 109 answers83.4%likely range 72.5% to 90.5%, 99 answers
Care and concern85.5%likely range 75.7% to 91.8%, 111 answers78.7%likely range 67.3% to 86.9%, 99 answers
Confidence and trust90.5%likely range 81.4% to 95.4%, 108 answers91.0%likely range 81.5% to 95.9%, 97 answers
Involvement in decisions91.0%likely range 81.9% to 95.8%, 104 answers92.9%likely range 83.6% to 97.1%, 93 answers
Needs met87.8%likely range 78.3% to 93.5%, 110 answers88.2%likely range 78.1% to 94.0%, 98 answers
Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade)
Babies at 8 months88.8%likely range 80.5% to 93.8%, 89 patients94.3%likely range 87.2% to 97.5%, 87 patients
Children at 18 months91.3%likely range 82.3% to 96.0%, 69 patients90.7%likely range 82.0% to 95.4%, 75 patients
Children at 5 years84.6%likely range 73.9% to 91.4%, 65 patients86.6%likely range 78.4% to 92.0%, 97 patients
Women aged 25 to 4968.6%likely range 66.3% to 70.8%, 1,643 patients59.4%likely range 56.8% to 62.0%, 1,384 patients
Women aged 50 to 6476.3%likely range 73.3% to 79.0%, 839 patients59.3%likely range 55.7% to 62.8%, 735 patients
Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade)
Registered patients9,307August 20268,264August 2026
Primary care networkBlackpool Central PCNBlackpool Central PCN
Phone01253 95307001253 951955
Friends and Family Test (its own feedback)89.5% good or very good267 answers, June 202685.2% good or very good330 answers, June 2026
Appointments (one month)3,782 in August 2026Same day 32.3%; face to face 66.9%3,581 in August 2026Same day 46.1%; face to face 59.3%
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year)0.91England 0.74, April 2025 to March 20260.95England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026
GPs (full-time equivalent)2.4 qualified permanent3.4 including trainees and locums3,966 patients per permanent GP4.7 qualified permanent4.7 including trainees and locums1,756 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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