Each year NHS patients get to rate the level of care they get from their GP surgery
The NHS survey gives patients the chance to give their opinions. File image(Image: PA)
Essex’s best-rated GP surgeries have been identified after an annual NHS survey. Each year the NHS surveys patients across the country about the care they receive from their GP.
Patients are asked to give their opinions on their practice on a range of different topics, from overall experience to how easy it is to contact the surgery and how much they trust their GP. The data for this year’s patient survey was collected between the start of January and the end of March. It means patients can track how their local GP has performed.
A surgery in the Uttlesford district picked up a near-perfect score with 97 per cent of respondents saying the practice was good overall. It makes Thaxted Surgery on Margaret Street the best-rated GP in Essex.
Just over three-quarters of patients (77%) across the whole of England said that the overall experience at their practice was “good”. That’s an improvement from the 2025 survey, when 74 per cent gave a score of either good or very good.
A total of one in 10 said that theirs was poor or very poor. That again is an improvement on last year, when 13% gave an overall poor rating.
An overwhelming majority of patients (93%) said that they had confidence in their GP or the other health professional that they saw at their surgery. Some 86 per cent said that the health professional treats them with care and concern, while 87 per cent said that they listen to them.
Only around two-thirds (69%) said that once they made an appointment, the amount of time that they had to wait felt “about right”. Almost a third (31%) said that it was too long.
The top performers with the highest percentages of respondents saying the practice was good overall:Thaxted Surgery, Margaret St (Uttlesford) – 97%St. James Surgery, Wash Lane (Tendring) – 96%The Coggeshall Surgery, Stoneham St (Braintree) – 94%Conner and Partners, Ferry Rd (Rochford) – 94%Dr Devaraja VC Practice, Stanford-le-Hope (Thurrock) – 93%The Highwood Surgery, Geary Dr (Brentwood) – 93%Dell Medical Centre, Orsett Rd (Thurrock) – 93%Dr Yadava N Practice, East Thurrock Rd (Thurrock) – 93%Southend Road Surgery, Stanford-le-Hope (Thurrock) – 92%Warrior Square Surgery, Southend-on-Sea (Southend-on-Sea) – 92%