GP practices in Central East: access, ratings and patient survey
Central East covers 262 GP practices with 3,497,337 registered patients (September 2026). 75% of patients described their overall experience as good in the 2026 GP Patient Survey, the 26th highest of 36 ICBs (England: 77%). There are 2,348 patients per qualified GP, against 2,171 across England.
Latest data: September 2026. Registered patients September 2026; GP Patient Survey 2026.
| Survey question | Central East | England |
|---|---|---|
| Overall experience good | 75% | 77% |
| Easy to contact by phone | 52% | 57% |
| Easy to contact via the website | 60% | 58% |
| Easy to contact via the NHS App | 52% | 54% |
| Reception team helpful | 83% | 85% |
| Last contact good | 71% | 73% |
| Wait for appointment about right | 69% | 69% |
| Listened to well | 86% | 87% |
| Treated with care and concern | 85% | 86% |
| Confidence and trust in the clinician | 92% | 93% |
| Needs met | 89% | 90% |
There are 2,348 registered patients per full-time-equivalent qualified GP in Central East, close to England's 2,171. Practices recorded 521 appointments a month per 1,000 patients (England: 510), 62% of them face to face. 48% of appointments took place on the day they were booked (England: 45%). 17% of registered patients are aged 65 or over (England: 19%).
| Measure | Central East | England |
|---|---|---|
| Patients per qualified GP | 2,348 | 2,171 |
| Appointments per 1,000 patients a month | 521 | 510 |
| Face-to-face appointments | 62% | 63% |
| Same day as booked | 48% | 45% |
| Did not attend | 4% | 4% |
| Patients aged 65 or over | 17% | 19% |
Patients per qualified GP by council area, for practices located in each.
| Council area | Practices | Registered patients | Patients per GP | Same-day appointments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stevenage | 5 | 103,837 | 3,000 | 40% |
| Fenland | 10 | 118,237 | 2,879 | 54% |
| Luton | 24 | 285,507 | 2,749 | 46% |
| Dacorum | 13 | 178,068 | 2,572 | 43% |
| Milton Keynes | 23 | 347,783 | 2,545 | 46% |
| East Hertfordshire | 12 | 159,731 | 2,531 | 48% |
| Central Bedfordshire | 23 | 302,543 | 2,504 | 46% |
| Watford | 5 | 85,106 | 2,485 | 53% |
| Peterborough | 17 | 246,661 | 2,472 | 47% |
| Bedford | 13 | 203,461 | 2,471 | 57% |
| Three Rivers | 8 | 79,731 | 2,463 | 52% |
| North Northamptonshire | 28 | 401,967 | 2,369 | 45% |
| Welwyn Hatfield | 10 | 142,339 | 2,199 | 44% |
| Cambridge | 17 | 203,566 | 2,192 | 45% |
| Broxbourne | 11 | 108,363 | 2,158 | 51% |
| Hertsmere | 10 | 178,764 | 2,121 | 50% |
| North Hertfordshire | 12 | 124,256 | 2,110 | 38% |
| St Albans | 12 | 165,847 | 2,076 | 41% |
| Huntingdonshire | 17 | 197,806 | 2,069 | 52% |
| East Cambridgeshire | 8 | 95,961 | 1,891 | 43% |
| South Cambridgeshire | 13 | 159,030 | 1,807 | 44% |
Among practices with at least 100 survey responses, Kimbolton Medical Centre has the highest share of patients rating their overall experience good (96%) and Parkwood Surgery the lowest (42%).
| Practice | Town | Overall experience good | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimbolton Medical Centre | Huntingdon | 96% | 115 |
| Alconbury & Brampton Surgeries | Huntingdon | 96% | 109 |
| Grange Street Surgery | St Albans | 94% | 127 |
| Rothschild House Surgery | Tring | 94% | 111 |
| Dr S K Bhardwaj and Dr M R Masood | Stevenage | 93% | 107 |
| Swavesey Surgery | Cambridge | 93% | 118 |
| Great Staughton Surgery | St. Neots | 93% | 113 |
| Buckden and Little Paxton Surgeries | St Neots | 93% | 131 |
| Much Hadham Health Centre | Much Hadham | 92% | 108 |
| Dr A J Wills & Partners | Cambridge | 92% | 124 |
| Parkside Medical Centre | Milton Keynes | 56% | 115 |
| Knebworth Surgery | Knebworth | 54% | 101 |
| Ivel Medical Centre | Biggleswade | 53% | 188 |
| Lakeside Healthcare at New Queen Street and Stanground surgeries | Peterborough | 53% | 135 |
| Waterbeach Surgery | Cambridge | 53% | 109 |
| Dr Rajpreet Millan | Hitchin | 51% | 104 |
| The Garden City Surgery | Letchworth Garden City | 51% | 116 |
| Dr Jinmi & Partners | Houghton Regis | 51% | 100 |
| Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre | Peterborough | 49% | 131 |
| Parkwood Surgery | Hemel Hempstead | 42% | 105 |
Relative to England, the register furthest below England's rate at practices in Central East is peripheral arterial disease (0.4% against 0.6%).
| Condition register | Age group | Central East (2024/25) | England | Patients on register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | All ages | 14.1% | 15.2% | 492,143 |
| Depression | 18+ yrs | 12.2% | 14.3% | 335,131 |
| Diabetes | 17+ yrs | 7.5% | 7.9% | 210,344 |
| Asthma | 6+ yrs | 6.3% | 6.6% | 207,296 |
| Chronic kidney disease | 18+ yrs | 3.5% | 4.6% | 97,273 |
| Cancer | All ages | 3.5% | 3.8% | 121,840 |
| Coronary heart disease | All ages | 2.7% | 3.0% | 92,545 |
| Atrial fibrillation | All ages | 2.0% | 2.2% | 70,635 |
| Stroke and TIA | All ages | 1.6% | 1.9% | 54,744 |
| COPD | All ages | 1.6% | 1.9% | 54,734 |
| Osteoporosis | 50+ yrs | 1.0% | 1.2% | 12,001 |
| Serious mental illness | All ages | 0.9% | 1.0% | 31,649 |
| Heart failure | All ages | 0.9% | 1.1% | 31,343 |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 16+ yrs | 0.8% | 0.8% | 21,427 |
| Epilepsy | 18+ yrs | 0.7% | 0.8% | 19,549 |
| Dementia | All ages | 0.7% | 0.8% | 24,385 |
| Learning disability | All ages | 0.6% | 0.6% | 19,326 |
| Palliative care | All ages | 0.5% | 0.6% | 17,654 |
| Peripheral arterial disease | All ages | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14,729 |
- A1 Network PCN (5 practices)
- Abbey Health PCN (2 practices)
- Alban Healthcare PCN (3 practices)
- Alliance PCN (6 practices)
- Alpha PCN (3 practices)
- Ascent PCN (3 practices)
- Bretton Park & Hampton PCN (3 practices)
- Broxbourne Alliance PCN (4 practices)
- Cam Medical PCN (3 practices)
- Cambridge City 4 PCN (6 practices)
- Cambridge City PCN (6 practices)
- Cambridge North Villages PCN (7 practices)
- Cantab Medical Practices PCN (3 practices)
- Caritas Medical PCN (4 practices)
- Central Thistlemoor & Thorpe PCN (3 practices)
- Central Watford PCN (3 practices)
- Chiltern Hills PCN (3 practices)
- Crown PCN (2 practices)
- Dacorum Beta PCN (3 practices)
- Delta PCN (5 practices)
- East Bedford PCN (3 practices)
- East Mk PCN (4 practices)
- Ely North PCN (4 practices)
- Ely South PCN (3 practices)
- Equality PCN (5 practices)
- Fenland PCN (4 practices)
- Grand Union PCN (2 practices)
- Green Vale Health PCN (2 practices)
- Halo PCN (2 practices)
- Harpenden Health PCN (3 practices)
- Hatfield PCN (4 practices)
- Hatters Health PCN (5 practices)
- Hertford and Rurals PCN (4 practices)
- Herts Five PCN (5 practices)
- Hillton PCN (3 practices)
- Hitchin and Whitwell PCN (4 practices)
- Hoddesdon & Broxbourne PCN (4 practices)
- Huntingdon PCN (3 practices)
- Icknield PCN (5 practices)
- Ivel Valley South PCN (3 practices)
- Lea Valley Health PCN (4 practices)
- Leighton Linslade Health Connections PCN (3 practices)
- Medics PCN (5 practices)
- Meridian PCN (6 practices)
- Nexus Mk PCN (5 practices)
- North Watford PCN (3 practices)
- Oasis PCN (2 practices)
- Onemk PCN (2 practices)
- Peterborough & East PCN (3 practices)
- Peterborough Partnerships PCN (6 practices)
- Phoenix Sunrisers PCN (5 practices)
- Potters Bar PCN (3 practices)
- Rickmansworth & Chorleywood PCN (2 practices)
- Sandhills PCN (3 practices)
- South Fenland PCN (2 practices)
- South Peterborough PCN (4 practices)
- South West PCN (4 practices)
- St Ives PCN (4 practices)
- St Neots PCN (3 practices)
- Stevenage South PCN (5 practices)
- Stort Valley & Villages PCN (5 practices)
- Titan PCN (3 practices)
- Trident PCN (3 practices)
- Unity (Bedford) PCN (6 practices)
- Ware and Rurals PCN (2 practices)
- Welwyn Allied PCN (2 practices)
- Welwyn Garden City A PCN (3 practices)
- Wisbech PCN (4 practices)
- Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (81% overall experience good)
- Birmingham and Solihull (73% overall experience good)
- Black Country (74% overall experience good)
- Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (78% overall experience good)
- Cheshire and Merseyside (78% overall experience good)
- Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (79% overall experience good)
- Coventry and Warwickshire (81% overall experience good)
- Derby and Derbyshire (76% overall experience good)
- Devon (79% overall experience good)
- Dorset (80% overall experience good)
- Essex (74% overall experience good)
- Gloucestershire (81% overall experience good)
- Greater Manchester (79% overall experience good)
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight (74% overall experience good)
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire (80% overall experience good)
- Humber and North Yorkshire (79% overall experience good)
- Kent and Medway (73% overall experience good)
- Lancashire and South Cumbria (78% overall experience good)
- Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (73% overall experience good)
- Lincolnshire (74% overall experience good)
- Norfolk and Suffolk (80% overall experience good)
- North East London (71% overall experience good)
- North East and North Cumbria (80% overall experience good)
- Northamptonshire (74% overall experience good)
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (74% overall experience good)
- Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (77% overall experience good)
- Somerset (79% overall experience good)
- South East London (76% overall experience good)
- South West London (81% overall experience good)
- South Yorkshire (77% overall experience good)
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (80% overall experience good)
- Surrey and Sussex (78% overall experience good)
- Thames Valley (76% overall experience good)
- West Yorkshire (76% overall experience good)
- West and North London (75% overall experience good)
How many GP practices are in Central East?
262, with 3,497,337 registered patients in September 2026.
How do patients rate GP practices in Central East?
75% described their overall experience as good in the 2026 GP Patient Survey, the 26th highest of 36 ICBs.
How many patients are there per GP in Central East?
2,348 per full-time-equivalent qualified GP, against 2,171 across England.
What share of GP appointments in Central East are face to face?
62%, against 63% across England.