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Vernova Healthcare CIC

Sunderland Street, Macclesfield, SK11 6JL

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Phone
01625 264078
Registered patients
Not in the latest NHS England file
Primary care network
Macclesfield PCN

Phone and network from NHS England’s organisation register (ODS), as at 20 October 2026. NHS England notes that this phone number is the one used for prescriptions and may not be the main or reception number, so check the practice’s own website too.

Not graded

This practice 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.

Month by month

The appointment part of the Practice Grade, month by month over the past year: the share of appointments that took place within two weeks of booking. The scale runs from 0 to 100%. A month without a figure is left empty, and we never fill it in.

Appointments within two weeks of booking
Appointments within two weeks of booking, month by month from September 2025 to August 2026.
MonthShare
September 202556.6%
October 202559.6%
November 202558.9%
December 202561.8%
January 202654.1%
February 202658.1%
March 202650.3%
April 202653.8%
May 202657.7%
June 202653.8%
July 202657.8%
August 202655.4%

55.4% in August 2026 (590 appointments). The same month, England as a whole had 87.7%.

Source: Appointments in General Practice, NHS England. Not a separate grade: the grade uses the latest month, as shown with the grade.

Care Quality Commission

We found no current CQC rating for this practice in the CQC’s published ratings.

The CQC inspects practices against its own standards. The CQC rating is a separate fact and is not part of our grade, which comes from the GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data.

Appointments, GPs and patient feedback

These figures come from NHS England. They are not part of our grade, and we do not compare them with other practices. Each one has its own source and month. The two access figures that are in the grade, appointments within two weeks and calls answered, are shown with the grade.

Appointments

Appointments in August 2026
641
Booked for the same day
14.2%
Face to face
46.3%

All appointments in the practice’s appointment book that month, with any member of staff, whether the patient attended or not. “Same day” means the appointment took place on the day it was booked; it is not a waiting time, and NHS England says it cannot measure demand on its own. “Face to face” is how the practice recorded the appointment; the rest were by phone, video, online or home visit. Both shares leave out appointments where this was not recorded.

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.

Time from booking to appointment

Routine appointments

Booked in advance for a problem that is not urgent.

Within 7 days of booking
40.0%
Within 14 days of booking
55.1%
More than 28 days after booking
20.9%
Appointments counted
570

Urgent (acute) appointments

Recorded by the practice as needing attention on the same day.

Not shown: only 2 appointments of this kind had a recorded booking date, and we show the shares from 50.

These are the general consultations in August 2026, with any member of staff, by how many days passed between booking and the appointment. They are not how long a patient waited after first getting in touch: a routine appointment is often booked ahead on purpose, or on a date the patient chose. Planned clinics, triage calls, medication reviews and similar are left out, and so are appointments with no recorded booking date. The practice, not NHS England, decides whether an appointment is routine or acute.

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.

GPs

NHS England’s workforce figures for August 2026 have no valid GP records for this practice.

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.

Same primary care network

This practice is part of Macclesfield PCN. A primary care network is a group of nearby practices that work together and share some staff and services, typically serving 30,000 to 50,000 people.

Other practices in the network, A to Z. The list is not a ranking.

Source: NHS England’s organisation register (ODS), primary care network membership.

About these figures

The Practice Grade weighs two parts. 70% is patient experience: the share of patients who describe their practice as good, the answers “very good” and “fairly good” to the GP Patient Survey’s question on overall experience, exactly as Ipsos publishes it. 30% is access, the mean of two shares from NHS England’s monthly data for the practice’s latest month (August 2026): appointments that took place within two weeks of booking, and calls answered by the practice on weekdays from 8am to 6.30pm. Each part has its own margin of error, and so does the grade. The label compares patients’ answers alone with England’s, so access moves the grade but never the label.

A practice is graded when at least 30 people answered the survey question. With only one of the two access figures, access is compared on that one; with neither, the grade is the survey part alone. The other survey questions are shown under “More answers from the survey”, each with its own margin of error and number of answers, and are not part of the grade. Appointment and phone data come from practices’ own systems, and practices record appointments in different ways. Time from booking is not the whole wait, and a call ended in the phone menu counts as not answered.

Read how we grade and what the GP Patient Survey is.

Data updated

The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.

When each source is next expected

Sources

  • 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): Y02045