It’s officially Spring, with the NHS coming through a challenging winter which saw a ‘quad-demic’ of seasonal illnesses put a big strain on hospital services.
The NHS have managed a record number of norovirus cases, at nearly two thirds higher than the same time last year. As well as a rise in hospitalisations for the flu, which hit hospitals hard in January and saw many declaring critical incidents.
GPs are the frontline of the NHS, and according to the latest GP Patient Survey, produced by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England between January 2 and March 25 last year, patients are overall happy with their experience.
Almost 700,000 patients in England completed the 2024 survey, which gathers information on how patients feel about their local GP, which reveals the best rated surgeries in the East Midlands and beyond.
Across England, the majority of patients described their overall experience as “very good” (37.1%) or “fairly good” (30.2%). However, not everyone is as happy, with 9.4% describing their overall experience as “fairly poor” and 9.5% as “very poor”.
Here we reveal the GP practices in the East Midlands which were rated the best by you. Surgeries are ranked by the number of patients that said they were “very good”.
13. The New Springwells Practice, Billingborough
There were 234 survey forms sent out to patients at The New Springwells Practice in Billingborough, Lincolnshire. The response rate was 48%, with 112 patients rating their overall experience. Of these, 74% said it was very good and 18% said it was fairly good. | Google Maps