Mid Devon · South West
Sampford Peverell Surgery
Sampford Peverell Surgery has a Practice Grade of 79.9 out of 100, based on 114 answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment data. That is 2.7 above the England average (77.2) and place 7 of 10 graded practices in Mid Devon.
Updated with the 2026 GP Patient Survey · Appointments: August 2026
Practice Grade
Practice Grade
2.7 above the England average (77.2)
Based on 114 answers of 297 asked (38%)
Clearly above the England average
Even with the margin of error, patients here describe the practice better than patients across England do, so the difference is very unlikely to be down to who happened to answer. How to read the margin of error.
Where Sampford Peverell Surgery sits among all practices in England
From patient experience (79.4, from the GP Patient Survey). How we grade.
Why this grade?
One part, compared with England:
- Patient experience79.4 · weighs 100%
Practice Grade: 79.9
At a glance
Flu vaccination in Devon, winter 2025 to 2026
79.5% of patients aged 65 and over registered with GP practices in Devon had a flu vaccine between 1 September 2025 and 28 February 2026 (186,957 of 235,066). England: 74.5%.
UKHSA publishes flu vaccine uptake for counties and unitary authorities, not for districts. These figures are for Devon, the county that Mid Devon is in.
| Who | Devon | England |
|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 and over186,957 of 235,066 | 79.5% | 74.5% |
| Under 65 in a clinical risk group61,949 of 129,733 | 47.8% | 40.6% |
| Pregnant women3,415 of 7,305 | 46.7% | 38.4% |
| Children aged 23,769 of 6,556 | 57.5% | 43.5% |
| Children aged 34,041 of 7,095 | 57.0% | 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.
What patients say
The share of patients who gave a positive answer, from the 2026 GP Patient Survey. The tick is England.
The wider the line around the dot, the less certain the figure, usually because fewer people answered. Read more about the method.
- Overall experience114 answers79.4%
England: 76.7%
- Contacting the practice114 answers77.2%
England: 72.6%
- Being listened to109 answers86.2%
England: 87.1%
- Confidence and trust110 answers94.4%
England: 92.7%
- Needs met110 answers91.3%
England: 90.2%
- Wait for an appointment99 answers59.6%
England: 69.3%
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
77.2%114 answers
Getting through on the phone: patients saying it is easy to contact the practice on the phone
63.2%108 answers
Reception and admin team: patients saying the reception and administrative team is helpful
92.8%112 answers
Knowing the next step: patients who knew what the next step would be after contacting the practice
86.1%109 answers
Seeing the same person
Having a preferred professional: patients who have a healthcare professional they prefer to see or speak to
24.7%114 answers
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
24.0%30 answers
Your last appointment
Wait for an appointment: patients who felt the wait for their last appointment was about right
59.6%99 answers
Being listened to: patients saying the healthcare professional was good at listening to them
86.2%109 answers
Care and concern: patients saying the healthcare professional was good at treating them with care and concern
89.3%109 answers
Confidence and trust: patients who had confidence and trust in the healthcare professional
94.4%110 answers
Involvement in decisions: patients saying they were involved as much as they wanted in decisions about their care
93.3%101 answers
Needs met: patients saying their needs were met at their last appointment
91.3%110 answers
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.
Do they look after you?
Do you see the same person?
Seeing your preferred professional: 24.0% (England 41.9%), 30 answers.
Can you get through?
Getting through on the phone: 63.2% (England 56.9%), 108 answers.
Are you listened to?
Being listened to: 86.2% (England 87.1%), 109 answers.
Needs met: 91.3% (England 90.2%), 110 answers.
Contact and location
Not part of the gradeLocation
29 Lower Town, Sampford Peverell, Tiverton, EX16 7BJShow on a mapPrimary care network: Culm Valley PCN. Find a GP on the NHS website
Source: NHS England Organisation Data Service, 20 October 2026.
Trend 2024–2026
2024–2026: worse on overall experience.
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)
Worse 2024–2026 · 3 surveys79.42024: 88.72026
Who answered
- Questionnaires returned
- 114
- Questionnaires sent
- 297
- Response rate
- 38.4%
The survey is sent to a random sample of registered patients aged 16 and over. Some questions are answered by fewer people than others, which is why each question has its own number of answers.
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
- No CQC rating yet
- Registered patients
- 2,454 (2026-08)
- Primary care network
- Culm Valley PCN
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
- 10.1 full-time equivalent
- Qualified permanent GPs
- 10.1 full-time equivalent
- Registered patients per permanent GP
- 243
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. Patients per permanent GP is our own calculation, not an NHS England figure: registered patients divided by the full-time equivalent of qualified permanent GPs. It does not count work done by locums, GPs in training, nurses, pharmacists or other staff.
NHS England estimated some of the hours in this practice’s GP records for August 2026, where they were missing.
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.
Diabetes, blood pressure, asthma and COPD
Not part of our grade
How many in 100 of the practice’s patients with each condition had the check or reached the level the guidelines aim for in 2025-26 (1 April to 31 March), from NHS England’s Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). The figures describe how care is recorded and followed up, not how good the care is for any one patient, and they are not part of our grade.
Diabetes
- Blood sugar (HbA1c) at 58 mmol/mol or lower
- 62 in 100 (137 patients, England 61, Mid Devon 59)
- Blood pressure at 140/90 or lower
- 72 in 100 (114 patients, England 79, Mid Devon 76)
- Feet checked in the last 12 months
- 84 in 100 (168 patients, England 79, Mid Devon 80)
High blood pressure
- Blood pressure at 140/90 or lower, aged 79 or under
- 75 in 100 (298 patients, England 72, Mid Devon 70)
- Blood pressure at 150/90 or lower, aged 80 or over
- 86 in 100 (110 patients, England 84, Mid Devon 83)
Asthma
- Asthma review with a written action plan in the last 12 months
- 59 in 100 (177 patients, England 68, Mid Devon 64)
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- COPD review in the last 12 months
- 76 in 100 (42 patients, England 77, Mid Devon 74)
Patients are everyone on the practice’s register for the condition in the group the row names, including those the practice left out of its QOF target for personalised care reasons, such as someone who chose not to have the check. So a figure can be lower than the achievement the practice reports. With fewer than 10 patients in a group the row says the patients are too few instead. Mid Devon and England are the same calculation over every practice there. None of the figures is adjusted for how old or how unwell a practice’s patients are.
Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework, 2025-26, indicators DM020, DM036, DM012, HYP008, HYP009, AST007 and COPD010. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Vaccinations and screening
Not part of our grade
How many of the practice’s patients in each group had childhood vaccinations or cervical screening, from NHS England’s Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) for 2025-26. These figures are not part of our grade. We show them as published and make no comparison between practices.
Childhood vaccinations
Babies at 8 months
Babies who had at least 3 doses of a vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough before they were 8 months old.
100.0% (19 of 19), likely range 83.2% to 100.0%. England: 88.7%.
Children at 18 months
Children who had at least 1 dose of the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) between 12 and 18 months old.
95.7% (22 of 23), likely range 79.0% to 99.2%. England: 85.6%.
Children at 5 years
Children who had the pre-school booster (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and polio) and at least 2 doses of MMR between the ages of 1 and 5.
100.0% (27 of 27), likely range 87.5% to 100.0%. England: 83.4%.
Cervical screening
Women aged 25 to 49
Women eligible for cervical screening with an adequate test recorded in the last 3 years and 6 months.
81.9% (262 of 320), likely range 77.3% to 85.7%. England: 66.3%.
Women aged 50 to 64
Women eligible for cervical screening with an adequate test recorded in the last 5 years and 6 months.
83.1% (216 of 260), likely range 78.0% to 87.1%. England: 75.4%.
The period is 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026: the children who reached the age in that year, and the women aged 25 to 64 at its end. Each figure is the number of patients with the vaccine or test recorded, out of everyone eligible. Eligible includes patients the practice has left out of the QOF target for personalised care reasons, for example someone who chose not to have it after talking it through, or who did not reply to invitations, so the percentage can be lower than the QOF achievement figure the practice reports. England is the same calculation over every practice.
The numbers are what the practice has on record. A vaccine or test given elsewhere only counts once it reaches that record. The likely range shows how far the percentage could move by chance when only a few patients are eligible; it is not a margin of error from a survey, because every eligible patient is counted.
Source: NHS England, Quality and Outcomes Framework, 2025-26, indicators VI001 to VI003, CS005 and CS006.
Antibiotic prescribing
Not part of our grade
The antibiotics this practice prescribed from April 2025 to March 2026, from NHS Business Services Authority prescribing data as published by the UK Health Security Agency and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. These figures are not part of our grade. Public health bodies aim to cut unnecessary antibiotic use because it helps bacteria become resistant to the drugs, but a figure cannot tell you whether any one prescription was needed. We show them as published, with England beside them, and make no comparison between practices.
Antibiotic items per STAR-PU
One item is one antibiotic on a prescription. STAR-PU weights the practice’s list by age and sex, so practices with older or younger patients can be set side by side. We add the four quarters into one year.
0.61 (898 items). England: 0.74.
Share that were broad-spectrum
Cephalosporins, quinolones and co-amoxiclav, which the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities counts as broad-spectrum and aims to keep to a small share of all antibiotic items.
9.0% (75 of 834 items). England: 8.1%.
Only items prescribed by the practice and dispensed in the community are counted. Items per STAR-PU allows for patients’ age and sex but not for illness, so a practice whose patients have more infections or other conditions can prescribe more for good reasons. The broad-spectrum share is not adjusted at all, and the source calls it a crude figure to treat with caution when comparing practices. England is the same calculation over every practice in the data.
Source: UK Health Security Agency and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (Fingertips), antibiotic prescribing by GP practice, from NHS Business Services Authority data, April 2025 to March 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 Mid Devon
Similar GP practices in South West
GP practices in the region with the nearest grade, in other areas.
- Cheddar Medical Centre Practice Grade 79.9
- Orchard Medical Centre Practice Grade 79.9
- Stratton Medical Centre Practice Grade 79.9
- Peverell Park Surgery Practice Grade 80.0
- Giffords Primary Care Ctr Practice Grade 80.1
- Lansdowne Surgery Practice Grade 80.1
Common questions
How good is Sampford Peverell Surgery?
Sampford Peverell Surgery has a Practice Grade of 79.9 out of 100, 2.7 above the England average (77.2), from 114 answers in the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment data. Even with the margin of error, patients here describe the practice better than patients across England do, so the difference is very unlikely to be down to who happened to answer.
How do I register with Sampford Peverell 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/
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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.
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Practice code (ODS): L83616