These are the best and worst GP surgeries in Sunderland as voted for by patients

Even before the pandemic, GPs said they were over-stretched and under pressure.

But it appears that the vast majority of us are happy with how our local practice operates, according to the latest GP Patient Survey, produced by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England.

The survey contacted 2.3 million people to gather information on how patients feel about their local GP and it reveals the best and worst surgeries in Sunderland and beyond.

Across the country, around a third of patients contacted returned the survey and the majority described the overall experience as ‘very good’ (44%) or ‘fairly good’ (38%).

Not everyone is as happy with their local practice though — 5% said their overall experience was ‘fairly poor’ and 2% described it as ‘very poor’. The survey was carried out before the pandemic, between January and March 2020.

Are you happy with your local GP practice? Here we reveal some of the best and worst GP practices in Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area.

For the best, surgeries are ranked by the proportion of patients that said they were ‘very good’ and for the worst by proportion of patients that said they were ‘very bad’.