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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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Peartree Lane Surgery and Spring House Health 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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MeasurePeartree Lane SurgeryAL7 3UJ×Spring House HealthAL7 4HL×
Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data)
Practice Grade63.8likely range 50.6 to 75.1106 survey answers65.5likely range 59.6 to 70.9104 survey answers
Label (against the England average)Cannot be told apart from the England averageNo label
Patients who describe the practice as good61.1%likely range 42.3% to 77.2%, 106 answers60.5%likely range 52.4% to 68.1%, 104 answers
Access (mean of the two below)70.0%likely range 66.4% to 73.3%76.9%likely range 71.4% to 81.2%
Appointments within two weeks of booking68.6%likely range 63.4% to 73.4%, 4,963 appointments84.8%likely range 77.4% to 90.1%, 1,873 appointmentsClearly higher
Calls answered by the practice71.3%likely range 66.4% to 75.7%, 7,533 calls68.8%likely range 60.9% to 75.7%, 3,065 calls
More survey questions (not part of the grade)
Getting through on the phone39.4%likely range 22.9% to 58.7%, 101 answers46.3%likely range 38.1% to 54.7%, 96 answers
Reception and admin team74.8%likely range 55.2% to 87.7%, 100 answers69.5%likely range 61.5% to 76.5%, 101 answers
Having a preferred professional23.0%likely range 11.0% to 41.8%, 106 answers32.4%likely range 25.4% to 40.3%, 105 answers
Seeing your preferred professionalNot shown: fewer than 30 answers25.3%likely range 15.1% to 39.4%, 35 answers
Knowing the next step80.3%likely range 61.4% to 91.3%, 102 answers72.8%likely range 64.8% to 79.6%, 98 answers
Contacting the practice61.9%likely range 42.8% to 77.9%, 104 answers55.1%likely range 47.0% to 62.9%, 104 answers
Wait for an appointment52.8%likely range 33.3% to 71.4%, 91 answers53.1%likely range 44.4% to 61.6%, 90 answers
Being listened to82.3%likely range 63.3% to 92.6%, 100 answers80.2%likely range 72.9% to 85.9%, 102 answers
Care and concern80.3%likely range 61.2% to 91.4%, 100 answers73.5%likely range 65.6% to 80.1%, 100 answers
Confidence and trust89.6%likely range 71.3% to 96.8%, 95 answers89.8%likely range 83.6% to 93.8%, 99 answers
Involvement in decisions84.9%likely range 65.7% to 94.3%, 95 answers85.4%likely range 78.4% to 90.4%, 95 answers
Needs met81.3%likely range 62.4% to 92.0%, 101 answers83.3%likely range 76.4% to 88.5%, 103 answers
Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade)
Babies at 8 months93.3%likely range 88.6% to 96.1%, 179 patients92.0%likely range 85.0% to 95.9%, 100 patients
Children at 18 months89.7%likely range 84.7% to 93.1%, 203 patients89.3%likely range 82.2% to 93.8%, 112 patients
Children at 5 years88.7%likely range 83.7% to 92.4%, 204 patients93.3%likely range 88.1% to 96.3%, 149 patients
Women aged 25 to 4967.6%likely range 66.1% to 69.1%, 3,605 patients77.5%likely range 75.6% to 79.2%, 2,032 patients
Women aged 50 to 6474.6%likely range 72.5% to 76.6%, 1,757 patients78.9%likely range 75.6% to 81.9%, 640 patients
Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade)
Registered patients20,711August 20269,411August 2026
Primary care networkWelwyn Garden City A PCNWelwyn Garden City A PCN
Phone01707 32929201707 294354
Friends and Family Test (its own feedback)No results for June 2026No results for June 2026
Appointments (one month)7,594 in August 2026Same day 38.6%; face to face 68.3%3,081 in August 2026Same day 38.4%; face to face 82.2%
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year)0.77England 0.74, April 2025 to March 20260.70England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026
GPs (full-time equivalent)9.0 qualified permanent9.0 including trainees and locums2,298 patients per permanent GP4.3 qualified permanent4.3 including trainees and locums2,178 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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