Sefton · North West
Netherton Surgery
Netherton Surgery has no Practice Grade: it has no result in the 2026 GP Patient Survey. It may be new, or it may have merged or changed its code since the survey was sent out.
Updated with the 2026 GP Patient Survey · Appointments: August 2026
At a glance
Flu vaccination in Sefton, winter 2025 to 2026
72.8% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in Sefton had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (46,705 of 64,179). England: 74.5%.
| Who | Sefton | England |
|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 and over46,705 of 64,179 | 72.8% | 74.5% |
| Under 65 in a clinical risk group16,403 of 42,548 | 38.6% | 40.6% |
| Pregnant women895 of 2,610 | 34.3% | 38.4% |
| Children aged 2734 of 2,254 | 32.6% | 43.5% |
| Children aged 3934 of 2,413 | 38.7% | 44.8% |
The counts follow the GP practice, not where people live. They include vaccinations given in GP practices, pharmacies and other places that are recorded in the GP record. 99.3% of practices sent data. UKHSA says the number counted as pregnant may be too high, so uptake among pregnant women is probably understated.
This card shows flu only. We have not found local authority figures for last winter’s COVID-19 vaccination from UKHSA.
Source: UK Health Security Agency, Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in GP patients: winter season 2025 to 2026 (final data, published 28 May 2026). Open Government Licence v3.0.
Patients' answers, question by question
Every question from the 2026 GP Patient Survey that we show. None of them except overall experience is part of the grade.
Contacting the practice
Contacting the practice: patients describing their experience of contacting the practice as good
Too few answers to show.
Getting through on the phone: patients saying it is easy to contact the practice on the phone
Too few answers to show.
Reception and admin team: patients saying the reception and administrative team is helpful
Too few answers to show.
Knowing the next step: patients who knew what the next step would be after contacting the practice
Too few answers to show.
Seeing the same person
Having a preferred professional: patients who have a healthcare professional they prefer to see or speak to
Too few answers to show.
Seeing your preferred professional: patients with a preferred healthcare professional who see or speak to them always, almost always or a lot of the time
Too few answers to show.
Your last appointment
Wait for an appointment: patients who felt the wait for their last appointment was about right
Too few answers to show.
Being listened to: patients saying the healthcare professional was good at listening to them
Too few answers to show.
Care and concern: patients saying the healthcare professional was good at treating them with care and concern
Too few answers to show.
Confidence and trust: patients who had confidence and trust in the healthcare professional
Too few answers to show.
Involvement in decisions: patients saying they were involved as much as they wanted in decisions about their care
Too few answers to show.
Needs met: patients saying their needs were met at their last appointment
Too few answers to show.
Time from booking to appointment
NHS England’s figures for August 2026 have no general consultations with a recorded booking date for this practice.
NHS England publishes these figures as official statistics in development, and its own national figures use the same split: urgent appointments on the day of booking, and routine ones within 7 and 14 days. Practices record appointments in different ways, so we show no England figure beside these monthly figures. The grade uses a wider count, NHS England’s own measure of appointments within two weeks, shown with the grade above.
Source: NHS England, Appointments in General Practice, August 2026.
Contact and location
Not part of the gradeLocation
Netherton Health Centre, Magdalen Square, Bootle, L30 5SPShow on a mapSource: NHS England Organisation Data Service, 20 October 2026.
Trend 2024–2026
Too little survey history to say whether anything has changed.
From the GP Patient Survey. Ipsos redesigned the survey in 2024 and started a new series, so earlier years are not shown and not compared. The trend follows question 32, the share of patients who describe the practice as good (the survey part of the Practice Grade); years without a result are left blank. England as a whole: 73.9% in 2024, 75.4% in 2025 and 76.7% in 2026. Small ups and downs that could just as well reflect who happened to respond count as unchanged, not as a change.
Overall experience (question 32)
Only one result (2024)73.6
Who answered
Independent: no one can pay to change a result, a label or what is shown, and the site has no ties to GP practices, other care providers or public authorities. The grade uses open data only: the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS England’s appointment and phone data. Who runs the site.
Below are facts and context. None of it is part of the Practice Grade.
About the practice
Not part of the grade
- CQC rating
- Good (published 2023-12-19)
Appointments
NHS England’s figures for August 2026 have no appointments for this practice. They only cover practices whose appointment system sends data to NHS England.
NHS England publishes these figures as official statistics in development. Practices record appointments in different ways, and some activity, such as some appointments run by the primary care network, is not included, so NHS England says the figures do not give a complete view of a practice’s work.
Source: NHS England, Appointments in General Practice, August 2026.
GPs
- All GPs
- 0.1 full-time equivalent
- Qualified permanent GPs
- 0.1 full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent adds up the hours GPs work, so two GPs working half the week count as one. Qualified permanent GPs leave out GPs in training and locums. We do not work out patients per GP here: with less than one full-time permanent GP on record, the figure would mostly reflect how the practice’s GPs are recorded.
Source: NHS England, General Practice Workforce, August 2026.
Friends and Family Test
NHS England’s figures for June 2026 have no results for this practice.
The test asks patients about their overall experience of the practice. NHS England says it is not meant for comparing practices: each practice chooses how to collect answers, anyone who uses the practice can answer (there is no random sample), and the results are not adjusted for differences between patients.
Source: NHS England, Friends and Family Test, GP practices, June 2026.
What we cannot measure
- The quality of the treatment itself: open data shows how patients describe their practice and how soon appointments take place, not clinical outcomes.
- One doctor or nurse: the figures are for the whole practice.
- Whether the practice can take you: that depends on its boundary and its list, which the practice decides.
- This year’s changes: the survey ran in early 2026, and a new team or system since then is not in the figures.
Questions to ask the practice (3)
This does not show in the figures, but you can ask the practice yourself before you register.
- Does my address fall inside your boundary, and are you taking new patients?
- How do I book an appointment, and how soon can I usually see someone?
- Can I ask to see the same GP or nurse each time?
Other GP practices in Sefton
Common questions
How do I register with Netherton Surgery?
Check that your address is inside the practice’s boundary, then register online, in the NHS App or on a paper form at the practice. You do not need to tell your current practice.
2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
2024 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
2025 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 OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
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
Practice code (ODS): N84630