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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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Rochdale Road Medical Centre and Durnford 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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MeasureRochdale Road Medical CentreM24 2PU×Durnford Medical CentreM24 6DL×
Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data)
Practice Grade85.3likely range 78.8 to 89.496 survey answers81.6likely range 71.9 to 87.5107 survey answers
Label (against the England average)Clearly above the England averageCannot be told apart from the England average
Patients who describe the practice as good86.7%likely range 77.7% to 92.4%, 96 answers83.7%likely range 69.9% to 91.9%, 107 answers
Access (mean of the two below)81.8%likely range 77.0% to 84.9%76.7%likely range 71.2% to 81.2%
Appointments within two weeks of booking98.7%likely range 91.9% to 99.8%, 946 appointmentsClearly higher73.2%likely range 63.6% to 81.0%, 1,484 appointments
Calls answered by the practice64.8%likely range 58.1% to 70.9%, 4,443 calls80.1%likely range 74.9% to 84.5%, 5,516 callsClearly higher
More survey questions (not part of the grade)
Getting through on the phone67.9%likely range 57.1% to 77.0%, 95 answers63.4%likely range 48.2% to 76.3%, 105 answers
Reception and admin team90.9%likely range 82.6% to 95.4%, 93 answers86.5%likely range 73.1% to 93.8%, 105 answers
Having a preferred professional22.0%likely range 14.4% to 32.0%, 96 answers43.1%likely range 29.4% to 57.9%, 107 answers
Seeing your preferred professionalNot shown: fewer than 30 answers41.3%likely range 22.2% to 63.5%, 47 answers
Knowing the next step85.2%likely range 75.7% to 91.5%, 90 answers86.6%likely range 73.1% to 93.9%, 104 answers
Contacting the practice70.8%likely range 60.1% to 79.5%, 94 answers82.7%likely range 68.8% to 91.2%, 107 answers
Wait for an appointment63.2%likely range 51.3% to 73.6%, 80 answers78.9%likely range 63.3% to 89.0%, 93 answers
Being listened to88.6%likely range 79.8% to 93.9%, 92 answers91.5%likely range 79.3% to 96.8%, 106 answers
Care and concern87.6%likely range 78.7% to 93.1%, 93 answers84.1%likely range 70.4% to 92.2%, 107 answers
Confidence and trust95.8%likely range 88.7% to 98.5%, 88 answers95.9%likely range 84.9% to 99.0%, 103 answers
Involvement in decisions99.1%likely range 93.3% to 99.9%, 84 answers92.6%likely range 79.5% to 97.6%, 93 answers
Needs met92.5%likely range 84.4% to 96.6%, 90 answers89.9%likely range 77.2% to 95.9%, 105 answers
Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade)
Babies at 8 months80.0%likely range 69.6% to 87.5%, 75 patients85.1%likely range 76.5% to 90.9%, 94 patients
Children at 18 months76.5%likely range 66.2% to 84.4%, 81 patients80.6%likely range 71.9% to 87.1%, 103 patients
Children at 5 years70.9%likely range 60.6% to 79.5%, 86 patients83.1%likely range 75.3% to 88.8%, 118 patients
Women aged 25 to 4963.2%likely range 60.3% to 65.9%, 1,138 patients70.2%likely range 67.9% to 72.4%, 1,601 patients
Women aged 50 to 6473.9%likely range 69.5% to 77.9%, 414 patients70.3%likely range 67.2% to 73.3%, 862 patients
Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade)
Registered patients6,214August 20269,709August 2026
Primary care networkMiddleton PCNMiddleton PCN
Phone0161 643913101616 432011
Friends and Family Test (its own feedback)93.1% good or very good102 answers, June 202689.4% good or very good142 answers, June 2026
Appointments (one month)2,811 in August 2026Same day 44.7%; face to face 77.6%3,820 in August 2026Same day 45.1%; face to face 65.5%
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year)0.68England 0.74, April 2025 to March 20260.79England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026
GPs (full-time equivalent)2.4 qualified permanent3.4 including trainees and locums2,618 patients per permanent GP4.8 qualified permanent5.5 including trainees and locums2,040 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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