Skip to main content
Practice Grade
Search

Compare

Compare GP practices side by side

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.

Comparison

Springfield House and Lees Medical Practice 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.

A page for this pair

MeasureSpringfield HouseOL4 2RJ×Lees Medical PracticeOL4 3BP×
Practice Grade (the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data)
Practice Grade57.7likely range 49.5 to 65.8104 survey answers66.7likely range 59.5 to 73.488 survey answers
Label (against the England average)No labelNo label
Patients who describe the practice as good51.2%likely range 39.7% to 62.6%, 104 answers58.2%likely range 48.1% to 67.6%, 88 answers
Access (mean of the two below)72.8%likely range 67.1% to 77.7%86.5%likely range 82.0% to 90.0%Clearly higher
Appointments within two weeks of booking69.6%likely range 60.6% to 77.3%, 1,732 appointments98.2%likely range 94.6% to 99.4%, 2,283 appointmentsClearly higher
Calls answered by the practice75.9%likely range 68.8% to 81.8%, 3,382 calls74.7%likely range 66.4% to 81.5%, 2,594 calls
More survey questions (not part of the grade)
Getting through on the phone47.9%likely range 36.3% to 59.8%, 99 answers47.9%likely range 37.9% to 58.1%, 84 answers
Reception and admin team73.5%likely range 61.8% to 82.5%, 101 answers79.1%likely range 69.9% to 86.0%, 89 answers
Having a preferred professional31.3%likely range 21.6% to 42.9%, 105 answers28.5%likely range 20.4% to 38.3%, 88 answers
Seeing your preferred professionalNot shown: fewer than 30 answersNot shown: fewer than 30 answers
Knowing the next step69.7%likely range 57.9% to 79.4%, 100 answers70.5%likely range 60.0% to 79.1%, 79 answers
Contacting the practice49.9%likely range 38.4% to 61.5%, 102 answers58.9%likely range 48.8% to 68.2%, 88 answers
Wait for an appointment45.3%likely range 33.4% to 57.8%, 91 answers54.5%likely range 44.0% to 64.6%, 81 answers
Being listened to72.9%likely range 61.0% to 82.2%, 98 answers76.3%likely range 66.6% to 83.8%, 85 answers
Care and concern69.3%likely range 57.3% to 79.2%, 97 answers88.3%likely range 80.0% to 93.4%, 84 answers
Confidence and trust74.7%likely range 62.7% to 83.8%, 95 answers85.7%likely range 76.8% to 91.6%, 81 answers
Involvement in decisions75.2%likely range 63.1% to 84.3%, 92 answers82.9%likely range 73.5% to 89.5%, 79 answers
Needs met71.5%likely range 59.7% to 81.0%, 100 answers83.7%likely range 74.9% to 89.9%, 86 answers
Vaccinations and screening (NHS England QOF, not part of the grade)
Babies at 8 months79.7%likely range 69.6% to 87.1%, 79 patients88.5%likely range 78.2% to 94.3%, 61 patients
Children at 18 months84.8%likely range 75.3% to 91.1%, 79 patients90.8%likely range 81.3% to 95.7%, 65 patients
Children at 5 years84.0%likely range 75.6% to 89.9%, 100 patients82.1%likely range 71.3% to 89.4%, 67 patients
Women aged 25 to 4956.5%likely range 53.6% to 59.3%, 1,140 patients69.4%likely range 66.4% to 72.3%, 923 patients
Women aged 50 to 6469.9%likely range 66.1% to 73.4%, 608 patients79.3%likely range 74.7% to 83.3%, 338 patients
Facts (NHS England, not part of the grade)
Registered patients7,050August 20265,217August 2026
Primary care networkOldham East PCNOldham East PCN
Phone0161 66724800161 6521285
Friends and Family Test (its own feedback)95.5% good or very good112 answers, June 202696.7% good or very good30 answers, June 2026
Appointments (one month)2,153 in August 2026Same day 34.8%; face to face 70.1%2,494 in August 2026Same day 71.8%; face to face 53.5%
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU (one year)0.85England 0.74, April 2025 to March 20260.57England 0.74, April 2025 to March 2026
GPs (full-time equivalent)4.9 qualified permanent6.6 including trainees and locums1,445 patients per permanent GP2.6 qualified permanent2.6 including trainees and locums1,976 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.

Add a practice

A name, or a postcode such as TS3 6AL (your browser looks it up with postcodes.io; we do not receive or store it).

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.

All sources and licences