Top medical practices are revealed

QUORN Medical Centre in Quorn has beaten 132 other practices across the county to claim the number one spot as the patients’ choice.

Dr SJC Clay’s Practice in Woodhouse Eaves was second and the Rosemead Drive Surgery in Oadby was third.

The new league table is based on the latest findings from the GP Patient Survey - a huge ongoing poll involving more than a million people a year.

It covers everything from the trust patients have in their doctor, to the attitude of reception staff and how easy it is to get an appointment.

Our data team has crunched the numbers in seven key areas: how easy it is to get an appointment, whether opening times are convenient, whether people trust the GP, whether the GP listens to them, whether the GP treats them with care and concern, whether receptionists are helpful, and how patients rate their overall experience.

More than 96 per cent of patients at Quorn Medical Centre felt their doctor listened to them properly, while an even higher proportion said they were treated with care and concern.

Nearly 99 per cent said reception staff were helpful, and 97 per cent said their overall experience of the surgery was good.

You can find out how your local surgery performed by typing its name or postcode into our interactive gadget.

In order to rank all surgeries nationwide, the Reach Data Unit looked at weighted survey results in each of the seven key areas.

Each surgery was given a rank for its performance in each area. Those category rankings were then added up to give an overall ranking.

Surgeries which had fewer than 50 responses were excluded on the basis that the sample was too small to draw reliable conclusions.

Local practices in the top 10 were: 1: Quorn Medical Centre, Station Road, Quorn; 2: Dr Sjc Clay’s Practice, The Cottage Surgery, Woodhouse Eaves; 8: Manor House Surgery, Mill Lane, Belton.