Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Bourne End runs ahead of the figure across England: 82.2 for men and 85.8 for women
For 2019 to 2023, England’s figures are 79.1 and 83.0. Bourne End grades A for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #14 of 39 in Buckinghamshire.
Bourne End grades A for health
Healthier than 89% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: child obesity and emergency admissions (better than 48% and 69% of UK towns). What lifts it: disability (93%) and women’s years in good health (92%). Among the 632 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Bourne End’s Health Grade is the 54th 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.
Men’s life expectancy in Bourne End 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.
7.7% of Bourne End’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 82.2 years for men; Bourne End’s is 82.2. For women it predicts 85.6, and Bourne End’s 85.8 is close to it.
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 Bourne End
The nearest A&E, GP practices, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
Frimley Health saw 61% 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: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Wexham Park Hospital, the nearest to Bourne End (6.6 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 59% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 62% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 61% of trusts: 7,059 patients in 12 months, 9% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Wexham Park Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2025), the hospital overall outstanding (2025).
South East trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 mi | Wycombe Hospital High Wycombe · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Good2022 | — |
| 4.1 mi | St Marks Hospital Maidenhead · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 6.5 mi | Chalfont's and Gerrards Cross Community Hospital Gerrards Cross · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 6.6 mi | Wexham Park Hospital A&E Slough · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Outstanding2025 | Good2025 |
| 6.8 mi | Amersham Hospital Amersham · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 8.3 mi | King Edward VII Hospital Windsor · Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 8.3 mi | Prince Charles Eye Unit, King Edward VII Hospital Windsor · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 9.1 mi | Townlands Memorial Hospital Henley-on-thames · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation 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.
No GP practice in Bourne End itself
The nearest practices.
| Practice | Distance | CQC rating |
|---|---|---|
| Bourne End and Wooburn Green Medical Centre High Wycombe HP10 0EE | 1.2 mi | Good2021 |
| Cookham Medical Centre Maidenhead SL6 9HX | 1.7 mi | Good2025 |
| Millbarn Medical Centre Beaconsfield HP9 1TX | 2.6 mi | Outstanding2026 |
| The Simpson Centre Beaconsfield HP9 1TX | 2.6 mi | Outstanding2025 |
| The Doctors House - Marlow Medical Group Marlow SL7 1DN | 2.7 mi | Good2016 |
| Linden Medical Centre Maidenhead SL6 6JJ | 3.6 mi | Good2016 |
GP practices registered with the Care Quality Commission, placed in the town by their postcode. A practice counts as in Bourne End when its surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. You can register with any practice whose area covers your address.
84% of adults in the Thames Valley 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 Bourne End).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Thames Valley patients who did, 75% 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.
87% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Bourne End’s residents are older than Buckinghamshire’s (24% are 65 or over, against 17%), which accounts for much of the difference. Adjusted for age, 53 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Bourne End | Buckinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 87% | 86% | 82% |
| Fair health | 10% | 11% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.2% | 3.6% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 14% | 14% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 5% | 5.3% | 7.4% |
Buckinghamshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Bourne End’s Health Grade is 54th of 632 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Bourne End, and others in Buckinghamshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prestwood and Great Missenden Buckinghamshire | 7,600 | 83.7 / 88.4 | 56 | A+ |
| 2 | Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire | 6,506 | 85.1 / 89.3 | 50 | A+ |
| 3 | East Horsley Surrey | 5,843 | 84.3 / 85.9 | 49 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire | 8,117 | 84.5 / 86.0 | 60 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 52 | Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire | 9,864 | 82.2 / 87.1 | 65 | A |
| 53 | Redbourn Hertfordshire | 5,188 | 83.6 / 85.3 | 53 | A |
| 54 | Bourne End Buckinghamshire | 7,166 | 82.2 / 85.8 | 71 | A |
| 55 | Bovingdon Hertfordshire | 5,313 | 84.1 / 87.3 | 64 | A |
| 56 | Chinnor Oxfordshire | 7,268 | 83.0 / 85.6 | 65 | A |
| … | |||||
| 632 | Ballingry Fife | 5,823 | 73.2 / 76.5 | — | 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 Bourne End
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourne End | 7,166 | 82.2 / 85.8 | 6.6 mi | A |
| Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green | 12,438 | 82.0 / 85.7 | 7.2 mi | A |
| Cookham | 5,216 | 81.0 / 85.7 | 6.9 mi | A |
| Marlow | 14,641 | 81.9 / 85.4 | 9.1 mi | A |
| Beaconsfield | 14,142 | 81.8 / 86.4 | 6.2 mi | A |
| Marlow Bottom | 3,339 | 85.3 / 88.5 | 9.8 mi | A+ |
| High Wycombe | 83,541 | 78.8 / 83.3 | 10 mi | C+ |
| Maidenhead | 67,391 | 81.2 / 85.5 | 6.8 mi | B+ |
High Wycombe, 4 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 78.8, 3.4 years shorter than Bourne End’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 Frimley Health 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).
- 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 Bourne End
How healthy is Bourne End?
Bourne End earns an A for health, healthier than 89% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 54th of 632 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 82.2 for men and 85.8 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 71 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
How long are A&E waits at Wexham Park Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 61% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 63%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Bourne End?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 84% of adults in the Thames Valley 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.
How many GP practices are there in Bourne End?
There’s no GP surgery inside Bourne End itself; the nearest is about 1.2 mi away.
What is the life expectancy in Bourne End?
82.2 years for men and 85.8 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 71.6 of those years and women 73.3 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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