Penistone Group PMS Practice, Sheffield: patient reviews and CQC rating

What patients say about Penistone Group PMS Practice

Its best result against England is the share who said the healthcare professional was good at listening to them: 98%, above the England figure of 87%. Its weakest is the share who found it easy to get through to the practice by phone: 40%, below the England figure of 57%. Of the 11 results in the table, 4 are above England and 1 below by more than the survey's margin of error, and 6 within it.

On overall experience it is 28th of the 81 practices in Sheffield with 50 or more responses. 40% found it easy to get through by phone (England: 57%). The overall experience result is 11 points higher than in 2025 (72%). 98 patients answered the survey (response rate 33%).

In the Friends and Family Test for July 2026, 95% of 373 responses rated the practice good or very good (England: 92%).

CQC's overall rating for Penistone Group PMS Practice is Good, published in December 2017. All 5 key questions are rated Good. It held the same rating in the report before (May 2015).

16,336 patients were registered at Penistone Group PMS Practice in September 2026, almost the same as a year earlier.

25% of its patients are aged 65 or over, against 19% across England. With 9.9 full-time-equivalent qualified GPs, there are 1,652 patients per GP, fewer than the England figure of 2,171 and South Yorkshire's 2,097. The practice also has 4.5 nurses and 11.9 other clinical staff such as pharmacists and physiotherapists (full-time equivalent).

From June 2026 to August 2026 the practice recorded 9,066 appointments a month, or 555 per 1,000 registered patients (England: 510). 45% were face to face (England: 63%). 54% took place on the day they were booked and 3% more than 28 days after booking (England: 45% and 5%).

61% were with a GP rather than another member of the practice team. 3% of booked patients did not attend.

Compared with England, the practice has a higher share of patients on its registers for palliative or supportive care needs (1.3% against 0.6%), stroke or TIA (2.9% against 1.9%) and atrial fibrillation (3.4% against 2.2%). It has a lower share for osteoporosis (0.3% against 1.2%), a learning disability (0.3% against 0.6%) and serious mental illness (0.7% against 1.0%). The practice's patients live in areas with an average deprivation score of 11.5 (England: 21.8; higher is more deprived).

Life expectancy for its patients' neighbourhoods is 84.2 years for women and 80.8 for men (England: 83.0 and 79.1).

68% of the practice's patients live in the S36 postcode district, followed by S75 (16%), S35 (14%) and HD8 (1%). 98% live in Barnsley, the council area the practice is in.

Penistone Group PMS Practice, The Surgery, 19 High Street, Penistone, Sheffield, S36 6BR. Phone: 01226 762424. Website: www.penistonegrouppractice.co.uk.