Photo: Tom walker · CC BY 3.0Life expectancy in Bletchley trails the figure across England: 78.0 for men and 81.6 for women
Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 75.8 in Bletchley South to 80.2 in Bletchley East, 1 mile apart. Bletchley grades C− for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age.
What stands out about health in Bletchley
A&E waits run longer than England’s, but fewer patients wait 12 hours for a bed
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Milton Keynes Hospital, saw 54% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 85th of 117 trusts. 0% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
A 4-year gap from one part of Bletchley to another
Men in Bletchley East can expect to live to 80.2, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Bletchley South, 1 mile away, the figure is 75.8, and Bletchley South records 129 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 78.3 in Bletchley South to 85.0 in Far Bletchley. Neighbourhoods ↓
More of Bletchley’s children are obese
26% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; more than in 92% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
Patients rate Bletchley’s GP practices below England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 73% of patients at Bletchley’s 5 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 50% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is behind 74% of English towns. GP practices ↓
Written from the OHID, NHS England and GP Patient Survey figures on this page. Life expectancy covers 2019 to 2023; neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people.
Bletchley grades C− for health
Healthier than 17% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, disability and Census bad health, are in the bottom 40% of UK towns; emergency admissions and child obesity are furthest behind. Among the 179 UK towns of 32,000 to 61,000 people, Bletchley’s Health Grade is the 98th highest.
Each measure is ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, the ranks are averaged, and the average is ranked again. Every measure allows for the town’s ages: life expectancy is worked out from the death rate at each age, so it doesn’t depend on how old the town’s residents are; deaths and admissions are counted against what England’s rates would give a town with these ages, and the Census answers against England and Wales’s rates by single year of age, so a seaside town of retired people isn’t marked down for being old.
Milton Keynes University Hospital saw 54% of major-A&E patients within four hours
Type 1 (major) A&E attendances seen, admitted or discharged within four hours of arrival, by month. NHS England publishes it by trust, not hospital: Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Milton Keynes Hospital, the nearest to Bletchley (2.4 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 63% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 51% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 97% of trusts: 2 patients in 12 months, 0% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Milton Keynes Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2024), the hospital overall good (2025).
East of England trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 mi | Milton Keynes Hospital A&E Milton Keynes · Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Good2025 | Good2024 |
| 13 mi | Luton and Dunstable Hospital A&E Luton · Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Good2022 |
| 14 mi | Stoke Mandeville Hospital A&E Aylesbury · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Good2023 | Good2019 |
| 15 mi | Bedford Hospital A&E Bedford · Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | Requires improvement2018 |
| 18 mi | Northampton General Hospital A&E Northampton · Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2025 |
| 20 mi | Hemel Hempstead General Hospital Hemel Hempstead · West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2020 | — |
| 23 mi | Lister Hospital A&E Stevenage · East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | Requires improvement2023 | Requires improvement2023 |
| 23 mi | Amersham Hospital Amersham · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
NHS acute hospitals registered with the Care Quality Commission (care directory, 01 October 2026). “A&E” marks a major (type 1) emergency department, open 24 hours and led by consultants, in NHS England’s Emergency Care Data Set; a hospital without the mark may still have a minor injury unit or urgent treatment centre. Ratings run Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate; the year is when each was published. Distances are straight lines from the town centre.
Men’s life expectancy across Bletchley runs from 75.8 to 80.2
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Bletchley’s 5 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Bletchley South, where 35% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 75.8. Bletchley South has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (129 per 100 expected), against 110 in Bletchley East.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bletchley East | 80.2 | 82.7 | 110 | 114 | 25% | 27% |
| Bletchley West | 80.0 | 82.4 | 90 | 111 | 24% | 17% |
| Far Bletchley | 78.1 | 85.0 | 103 | 109 | 29% | 23% |
| Bletchley North West | 77.2 | 81.2 | 124 | 119 | 28% | 24% |
| Bletchley South | 75.8 | 78.3 | 129 | 151 | 26% | 35% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Bletchley South’s men’s life expectancy is 75.8 with a 95% range of 74.1 to 77.4. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Bletchley; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
73% of patients rate Bletchley’s 5 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 97th of 148 English towns of 32,000 to 61,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Red House Surgery MK2 2EH · 11,603 adult patients | 82% good · range 72%–90% | 61% | 66% | Good2016 |
| Whaddon House Surgery MK3 7QU · 16,457 adult patients | 76% good · range 55%–89% | 44% | 65% | Outstanding2016 |
| Westfield Road Surgery MK2 2DJ · 6,825 adult patients | 76% good · range 68%–82% | 60% | 83% | Good2026 |
| Dr H. Ullah & Partners MK2 2TX · 12,803 adult patients | 72% good · range 52%–86% | 47% | 54% | Good2016 |
| Parkside Medical Centre MK3 6EN · 8,122 adult patients | 56% good · range 47%–64% | 39% | 70% | Good2026 |
The Red House Surgery has the town’s highest rating (82%). You can register with any practice whose area covers your address.
GP Patient Survey 2026: surveys sent January to March 2026; results weighted by NHS England. The range is the 95% confidence interval. Adult patients: the survey’s practice population aged 16 and over. A practice counts as in Bletchley when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Men’s life expectancy in Bletchley is about what its level of deprivation predicts
Across 1,996 English towns of 2,500 or more, men’s life expectancy tracks income deprivation closely (correlation −0.81). Each dot is a town.
26% of Bletchley’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 78.3 years for men; Bletchley’s is 78.0. For women it predicts 82.3, and Bletchley’s 81.6 is 0.7 years below.
Income deprivation: share of residents in low-income households, English Indices of Deprivation 2025, averaged over each town’s neighbourhoods. A town above or below the line isn’t necessarily doing better or worse on care: students, prisons and hostels inside a boundary all shift the figures.
Care in and near Bletchley
The nearest A&E, the practice patients rate highest, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
81% of adults in the Central East area who tried got an NHS dental appointment
Adults who tried to get an NHS dental appointment for themselves in the last two years, and got one. GP Patient Survey 2026, by integrated care system (the NHS area that plans dentistry for Bletchley).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Central East patients who did, 73% rated the experience good (England 74%). NHS practices taking new patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist; for urgent dental pain, call NHS 111.
The survey asks GP patients about dentistry, so results are published for health areas, not towns or practices.
Fewer people in Bletchley call their health good than across Buckinghamshire
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 107 report bad health for every 100 expected, more than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Bletchley | Buckinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 86% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 11% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 3.6% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 17% | 14% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 6.9% | 5.3% | 7.4% |
Buckinghamshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Bletchley’s Health Grade is 98th of 179 UK towns of 32,000 to 61,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Bletchley, and others in Buckinghamshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| 3 | West Molesey Surrey | 47,144 | 82.5 / 86.3 | 63 | A |
| … | |||||
| 96 | Canvey Island Essex | 38,004 | 78.0 / 82.0 | 119 | C− |
| 97 | Lancaster Lancashire | 52,646 | 76.7 / 81.8 | 124 | C− |
| 98 | Bletchley Buckinghamshire | 45,018 | 78.0 / 81.6 | 114 | C− |
| 99 | Boston Lincolnshire | 45,347 | 76.2 / 81.4 | 134 | C− |
| 100 | Perth Perth and Kinross | 47,885 | 77.6 / 81.5 | — | C− |
| … | |||||
| 179 | Greenock Inverclyde | 42,870 | 73.5 / 78.2 | — | D− |
Health letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only. Welsh towns are graded on life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and the two Census measures: OHID’s early-death, admissions and child-obesity figures cover England.
Health in the places around Bletchley
Life expectancy for men / women, and the nearest A&E. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | People | Life expectancy | Nearest A&E | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bletchley | 45,018 | 78.0 / 81.6 | 2.4 mi | C− |
| Newton Longville | 1,877 | 82.1 / 85.5 | 4 mi | A |
| Stoke Hammond | 1,155 | 82.4 / 86.0 | 4.8 mi | A |
| Milton Keynes | 197,328 | 78.9 / 82.7 | 1.3 mi | C |
| Woburn Sands | 4,315 | 82.0 / 85.9 | 3.6 mi | A− |
| Stewkley | 1,421 | 82.4 / 86.0 | 6.7 mi | A |
| Aspley Guise | 2,114 | 81.4 / 85.5 | 4.3 mi | A− |
| Heath and Reach | 1,451 | 81.2 / 83.1 | 6.5 mi | B− |
Stoke Hammond, 2.5 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 82.4, 4.4 years longer than Bletchley’s.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A&E figures are for the trust. NHS England publishes four-hour waits by trust, not hospital, so Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s figures cover every major A&E it runs. They count type 1 (major) departments; minor injury units and urgent treatment centres are left out, which is why they sit below the all-types figure NHS England headlines (75% for England).
- The GP survey is a survey. About 100 patients answer for each practice, so a practice’s figure has a range (shown in the table); small differences between practices aren’t meaningful. The town figure weights each practice by its adult patients, some of whom live outside Bletchley.
- Adjusted for age. A ratio of 100 means as many deaths, admissions or reports of bad health as England’s rates (England and Wales’s for the Census) would give a town with these ages; 120 means a fifth more.
- Small areas, summed to the town. OHID publishes these figures for middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people; the town’s figure averages the areas it covers, weighted by how many of their residents live in it, so a village shares its area’s figure with the countryside around it.
- Different years. Life expectancy and deaths cover 2019 to 2023; emergency admissions 2016/17 to 2020/21 (the latest OHID publishes for small areas, including the pandemic dip); child obesity the three school years to 2024/25; A&E the 12 months to September 2026; the GP Patient Survey early 2026; CQC ratings were published on different dates, shown in each row.
- Distances are straight lines. Miles are measured from the town’s centre to each site; the road is longer. For an emergency, call 999; for urgent advice, call NHS 111.
Questions about health in Bletchley
How healthy is Bletchley?
Bletchley earns a C− for health, healthier than 17% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 98th of 179 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 78.0 for men and 81.6 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 114 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Bletchley have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Bletchley East (80.2), Bletchley West (80.0) and Far Bletchley (78.1); the shortest is Bletchley South (75.8). For women, Far Bletchley is highest (85.0) and Bletchley South lowest (78.3). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Milton Keynes Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 54% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 51%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Bletchley?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 81% of adults in the Central East area who tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years got one, against 82% across England. Practices taking new NHS patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist service.
Which GP practice in Bletchley do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, The Red House Surgery (82% good overall), Whaddon House Surgery (76% good overall) and Westfield Road Surgery (76% good overall). Across all 5 Bletchley practices, 73% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Bletchley?
78.0 years for men and 81.6 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 63.1 of those years and women 63.8 in good health.
CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Sources: OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (life expectancy and deaths 2019–23, emergency admissions 2016/17–2020/21, NCMP 2022/23–2024/25); House of Commons Library MSOA names · ONS health state life expectancy for small areas (MSOAs), England and Wales, 2019 to 2023 (healthy life expectancy) · ONS Census 2021 general health and disability, adjusted for age · Care Quality Commission care directory and latest ratings, 01 October 2026 · NHS Organisation Data Service · GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos) · NHS England, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions (monthly, by trust) and Emergency Care Data Set activity by site, June–September 2026 (type 1 A&Es) · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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