England's worst GP surgeries named and shamed - so is YOURS one of them?

Almost 1 successful 3 GP surgeries are failing successful parts of the country, MailOnline tin contiguous reveal.

An exhaustive audit of each 6,000-plus practices crossed England shows 28 are rated 'inadequate' – the worst imaginable score.

Another 288 surgeries 'require improvement', according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulator.

Exposing the postcode lottery patients face, MailOnline's investigation shows that 29.4 per cent of surgeries successful Barking and Dagenham autumn abbreviated of standards.

Medway successful Kent saw a similarly-high proportionality of sub-par practices (24.2 per cent), with Greenwich successful East London adjacent down (19.4 per cent).

Detailed results of MailOnline's probe tin beryllium viewed successful our interactive maps. 

One shows however good GP surgeries are performing wide successful your area. The different lists each location and their idiosyncratic scores.

Under CQC rules, practices are inspected connected antithetic timelines, babelike connected their existent rating. 

Homes are ranked connected a Nando's-style colour standard arsenic 'outstanding' (blue), 'good', (green) 'requires improvement' (amber) oregon 'inadequate' (red).

'Outstanding' sites are visited each two-and-a-half years, portion the CQC assesses 'good' practices astatine slightest each 2 years.

Those rated 'requires improvement' oregon 'inadequate' are inspected much frequently, sometimes each six months. 

The CQC rates practices according to their safety, however effectual the attraction provided is, attitude, responsiveness and enactment from elder figures. 

In Barking and Dagenham, London, 2 of 34 facilities were deemed 'inadequate' – meaning 'the work is performing severely and we've taken enactment against the idiosyncratic oregon organisation that runs it'.

Eight were rated 'requires improvement'. 

Only the Isles of Scilly boasts an outstanding people for each its GP surgeries – though it lone has one.

One 'inadequate'-rated surgery, Blossom Health successful Gosport, was wilfully prescribing pregabalin to women of childbearing age, without informing them of the drug's hazard to large women.  

Pregabalin is an anxiousness and epilepsy cause that has been shown to perchance origin congenital malformations during pregnancy. 

Another, The Whitestone Surgery successful Nuneaton, was, until recently, being tally by a squad of locums pursuing the suspension of its pb GP by the General Medical Council.

The GP's suspension past twelvemonth came arsenic the CQC believed radical were astatine important hazard of harm were helium to proceed successful the role. 

The signifier is presently being tally by the Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance successful a caretaker capacity. 

The information from the CQC is close arsenic of March 3, 2025. As such, consequent inspections and gradings immoderate clip aft that volition not beryllium reflected and could beryllium different. 

After years of rowing with the Government, GPs person agreed to caller declaration reforms which volition 'bring backmost the household doctor'.

Ministers anticipation it volition banish the 8am scramble for appointments millions of frustrated patients person go accustomed to by allowing patients to publication online passim the day, alternatively of conscionable erstwhile phonelines open.

GPs volition besides payment from burdensome reddish portion being axed nether the woody worthy shy of £900million, specified arsenic the request to study connected unit wellbeing meetings.

A increasing colonisation and dwindling workforce has fuelled the appointments crisis.

Increasing numbers of doctors are reducing their moving hours and retiring early.

Some are leaving for the backstage assemblage oregon overseas due to the fact that of the soaring pressures.

But those wrong the manufacture person said the problems widen simply beyond diligent oversupply and understaffing. 

Dr Vikram Murthy, a GP astatine the 'good'-rated Reach Healthcare Centre successful Kent, told MailOnline that wide signifier successful the UK was 'at the cliffedge'.

He said: 'The deficiency of resources is everyplace and obscurity is that shown amended than successful the 8am telephone unreserved that's similar thing retired of Hunger Games.

'This existent scenery is truthful overmuch worse than successful our parents' procreation erstwhile 1 GP served astir 1,500 patients – present it could easy beryllium 6,000 oregon more.'

Dr Murthy added that portion Health Secretary Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association's initiatives to instrumentality unit disconnected GP could beryllium adjuvant successful the short-term, a wide recruitment situation is astatine hand. 

He said: 'Junior doctors and aesculapian students similar hospitals present due to the fact that you cognize what you're going to get. 

'There truly indispensable beryllium a propulsion to get marque it much charismatic for them to travel into GP and superior care.' 

Dennis Silver from Silver Voices, a run radical for the elderly, told MailOnline the shocking ratings travel arsenic nary surprise. 

He said: 'There's been a batch of bully speech but not overmuch enactment to amended people's lives truthful far.

'Wes Streeting made a large opus and creation astir the caller GPs declaration signed past period and however it would escaped them from immoderate bureaucracy truthful they could absorption connected patients and instrumentality to the "age of the household doctor".

'The occupation is the authorities needs to benignant retired with the doctors what they mean by "a instrumentality to the household doctor" due to the fact that that means continuity of attraction with people seeing their ain doc connected a regular ground and that is truthful acold from existent world connected the ground.'  

Professor Kamila Hawthorne, seat of the Royal College of GPs, said: 'GPs and our teams are delivering millions much appointments each period than 5 years agone but with lone a fistful much afloat qualified, full-time GPs. 

'We person raised repeated concerns that this is not harmless for patients, nor sustainable for practices. 

'Still, astir 95 per cent of GP practices successful England are presently rated bully oregon outstanding, and GPs and their teams are moving incredibly hard to present harmless and timely attraction for their patients adjacent arsenic they look unrelenting pressures.

'However, wherever diligent information concerns person been raised, it is important that that practices are not vilified, but supported to improve, successful the champion interests of patients.

'Patient information is paramount successful wide practice, and the College recognises that if implemented efficaciously and proportionately, inspections of GP practices tin assistance to support patients safe, and enactment practices that are struggling. 

'But pursuing autarkic reviews, the College has important concerns astir the CQC’s existent inspection processes. 

'Our governing Council has called for a intermission successful regular inspections until improvements are made, and an extremity to "one word" ratings, successful favour of alternatives that instrumentality into relationship the circumstances successful which idiosyncratic practices are moving and supply greater enactment and transparency for patients and professionals.'