Spinney Brook Medical Centre, Wellingborough: patient reviews and CQC rating

What patients say about Spinney Brook Medical Centre

Its best result against England is the share who said they were treated with care and concern: 89%, against 86% across England. Its weakest is the share who found it easy to contact the practice through its website: 35%, below the England figure of 58%. Of the 11 results in the table, 0 are above England and 1 below by more than the survey's margin of error, and 10 within it.

On overall experience it is 2nd of the 9 practices in Wellingborough with 50 or more responses. 51% found it easy to get through by phone (England: 57%). The overall experience result is unchanged from 2025 (80%). 118 patients answered the survey (response rate 32%).

In the Friends and Family Test for July 2026, 91% of 320 responses rated the practice good or very good (England: 92%).

CQC's overall rating for Spinney Brook Medical Centre is Good, published in April 2017. All 5 key questions are rated Good. It held the same rating in the report before (September 2016).

11,483 patients were registered at Spinney Brook Medical Centre in September 2026, almost the same as a year earlier.

21% of its patients are aged 65 or over, against 19% across England. With 6.2 full-time-equivalent qualified GPs, there are 1,848 patients per GP, fewer than the England figure of 2,171 and Northamptonshire's 2,413. The practice also has 4.6 nurses and 4.1 other clinical staff such as pharmacists and physiotherapists (full-time equivalent).

From June 2026 to August 2026 the practice recorded 3,844 appointments a month, or 335 per 1,000 registered patients (England: 510). 77% were face to face (England: 63%). 44% took place on the day they were booked and 9% more than 28 days after booking (England: 45% and 5%).

50% were with a GP rather than another member of the practice team. 4% of booked patients did not attend.

Compared with England, the practice has a higher share of patients on its registers for COPD (3.0% against 1.9%), heart failure (1.7% against 1.1%) and peripheral arterial disease (0.8% against 0.6%). It has a lower share for palliative or supportive care needs (0.1% against 0.6%) and a learning disability (0.3% against 0.6%). The practice's patients live in areas with an average deprivation score of 17.7 (England: 21.8; higher is more deprived).

Life expectancy for its patients' neighbourhoods is 80.5 years for women and 79.0 for men (England: 83.0 and 79.1).

82% of the practice's patients live in the NN9 postcode district, followed by NN14 (13%) and NN10 (3%). 100% live in North Northamptonshire, the council area the practice is in.

Spinney Brook Medical Centre, 59 High Street, Irthlingborough, Wellingborough, NN9 5GA. Phone: 01933 650593. Website: www.spinneybrookmedcentre.co.uk.