Every GP practice in Rochdale ranked by patients in the 2026 survey

Patients have rated their experiences at GP practices across Rochdale borough in the latest national survey, revealing a wide difference between the highest and lowest results recorded on one key measure.

Rochdale Daily compared practices using the percentage of respondents who described their overall experience of their GP practice as good in the 2026 GP Patient Survey.

Dr GWD Bhima recorded the highest result among the borough practices included in the comparison, with 96.2 per cent of respondents reporting a good overall experience. Milnrow Village Practice followed on 95.4 per cent, with The Village Medical Centre in Littleborough on 94 per cent.

At the other end of the comparison, Croft Shifa Health Centre recorded 44.9 per cent. The difference between the highest and lowest results was therefore 51.3 percentage points.

The England figure was 76.7 per cent.

EVERY ROCHDALE BOROUGH GP PRACTICE COMPARED

1. Dr GWD Bhima, Rochdale — 96.2%

2. Milnrow Village Practice, Milnrow and Newhey — 95.4%

3. The Village Medical Centre, Littleborough — 94.0%

4. Trinity Medical Centre, Littleborough — 92.6%

5. Birtle View Medical Practice, Heywood — 91.8%

6. The Kingsway Practice, Kingsway — 91.7%

7. Stonefield Street Surgery, Milnrow and Newhey — 90.4%

8. Pennine Surgery, Littleborough — 90.3%

9. The Hive Health Centre, Middleton — 88.9%

10. Family Practice, Middleton — 88.1%

11. Hopwood Medical Centre, Heywood — 87.7%

12. Littleborough Group Practice, Littleborough — 87.3%

13. Rochdale Road Medical Centre, Middleton — 86.7%

14. Kirkholt Medical Practice, Kirkholt — 86.0%

15. Windermere Surgery, Middleton — 85.7%

16. Ashworth Street Surgery, Rochdale — 84.4%

17. Durnford Medical Centre, Middleton — 83.7%

18. The Junction Surgery, Middleton — 82.4%

19. Heady Hill Surgery, Heywood — 81.7%

20. Middleton Health Centre, Middleton — 81.2%

21. Yorkshire Street Surgery, Rochdale — 80.8%

22. Castleton Health Centre, Castleton — 79.9%

23. Longford Street Medical Centre, Heywood — 77.2%

24. Wellfield Health Centre, Rochdale — 76.7%

25. The Dale Medical Practice, Rochdale — 76.5%

26. The Dawes Family Practice, Rochdale — 76.2%

27. Edenfield Road Surgery, Rochdale — 76.1%

28. Mark Street Surgery, Rochdale — 75.7%

29. Peterloo Medical Centre, Middleton — 75.4%

30. Healey Surgery, Rochdale — 73.4%

31. Woodside Medical Centre, Middleton — 71.9%

32. Dr MB Ghafoor and Partners, Rochdale — 67.5%

33. Heywood Health, Heywood — 66.7%

34. Inspire Medical Centre, Rochdale — 63.9%

35. Dr A Hamid, Rochdale — 62.4%

36. Croft Shifa Health Centre, Rochdale — 44.9%

WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW

The results show substantial variation both across the borough and within individual townships. Heywood practices ranged from 91.8 per cent at Birtle View Medical Practice to 66.7 per cent at Heywood Health.

In Middleton, The Hive Health Centre recorded 88.9 per cent, compared with 71.9 per cent at Woodside Medical Centre.

The four Littleborough practices included in the comparison all recorded results above 87 per cent, with The Village Medical Centre leading the township on 94 per cent.

WHAT THE COMPARISON DOES NOT MEAN

The table compares practices on one patient-experience measure only. It is not a clinical-safety rating and does not assess diagnostic accuracy, prescribing, treatment outcomes or the performance of individual doctors.

The GP Patient Survey is based on a sample of registered patients, rather than every patient at each practice. Results are weighted, but smaller samples carry greater statistical uncertainty and practices serve populations with different needs and circumstances.

NHS England and Ipsos advise that the survey was not designed to create a definitive league table of GP practices. The ordering above is therefore a straightforward comparison of the published overall-experience percentage, not a declaration that one practice provides objectively better clinical care than another.

The 2026 survey was conducted between 2 January and 13 April and published on 9 July. Practices may have introduced changes since patients completed their questionnaires.

Rochdale Daily will invite practices to comment on their results and explain any improvements introduced since the survey period.