Photo: Peter S · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Pitstone is higher than in 95% of UK towns: 83.6 for men and 87.4 for women
England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Pitstone grades A for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #11 of 39 in Buckinghamshire.
What stands out about health in Pitstone
Men live longer lives than Pitstone’s level of deprivation would suggest
12% of Pitstone’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 81.2; Pitstone’s is 83.6. For its circumstances ↓
Fewer of Pitstone’s children are obese
13% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; fewer than in 88% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
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.
Pitstone grades A for health
Healthier than 95% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Ahead of the typical UK town on every measure. Even its weakest, emergency admissions and Census bad health, are in the top 50% of UK towns; women’s life expectancy and men’s life expectancy lead. Among the 813 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Pitstone’s Health Grade is the 55th 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 Pitstone is 2.4 years above 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.
12% of Pitstone’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.2 years for men; Pitstone’s is 83.6. For women it predicts 84.8, and Pitstone’s 87.4 is 2.6 years above.
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 Pitstone
The nearest A&E, GP practices, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare saw 63% 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: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust runs the A&E at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the nearest to Pitstone (7.3 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 69% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 64% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 68% of trusts: 2,997 patients in 12 months, 6.9% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Stoke Mandeville Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2019), the hospital overall good (2023).
South East trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 mi | Stoke Mandeville Hospital A&E Aylesbury · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Good2023 | Good2019 |
| 8.2 mi | Luton and Dunstable Hospital A&E Luton · Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Good2022 |
| 9.3 mi | Hemel Hempstead General Hospital Hemel Hempstead · West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2020 | — |
| 12 mi | Amersham Hospital Amersham · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 14 mi | St Albans City Hospital St Albans · West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2020 | — |
| 14 mi | Milton Keynes Hospital A&E Milton Keynes · Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Good2025 | Good2024 |
| 15 mi | Wycombe Hospital High Wycombe · Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Good2022 | — |
| 16 mi | Chalfont's and Gerrards Cross Community Hospital Gerrards Cross · 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.
No GP practice in Pitstone itself
The nearest practices.
| Practice | Distance | CQC rating |
|---|---|---|
| Rothschild House Surgery Tring HP23 6PU | 3.2 mi | Good2017 |
| Edlesborough Surgery Dunstable LU6 2HT | 3.3 mi | Good2022 |
| Gossoms End Surgery Berkhamsted HP4 1DL | 5.5 mi | Good2023 |
| 3W Health Leighton Buzzard LU7 0NE | 5.5 mi | Good2016 |
| Ashcroft Surgery Leighton Buzzard LU7 0NE | 5.5 mi | Requires improvement2026 |
| Salisbury House Surgery Leighton Buzzard LU7 1RS | 5.8 mi | Good2016 |
GP practices registered with the Care Quality Commission, placed in the town by their postcode. A practice counts as in Pitstone 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.
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 Pitstone).
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.
88% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 61 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Pitstone | Buckinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 88% | 86% | 82% |
| Fair health | 9.3% | 11% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.2% | 3.6% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 13% | 14% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 4.6% | 5.3% | 7.4% |
Buckinghamshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Pitstone’s Health Grade is 55th of 813 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Pitstone, and others in Buckinghamshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marlow Bottom Buckinghamshire | 3,339 | 85.3 / 88.5 | 42 | A+ |
| 2 | Brookmans Park Hertfordshire | 4,033 | 85.9 / 87.6 | 51 | A+ |
| 3 | Pangbourne Berkshire | 3,279 | 86.0 / 87.7 | 51 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire | 4,707 | 83.2 / 87.9 | 55 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | 3,893 | 84.0 / 86.5 | 57 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 53 | Hemingford Grey Cambridgeshire | 3,372 | 83.9 / 86.5 | 58 | A |
| 54 | Sonning Common Oxfordshire | 5,264 | 81.4 / 85.9 | 65 | A |
| 55 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | 4,109 | 83.6 / 87.4 | 60 | A |
| 56 | Silsoe Bedfordshire | 3,419 | 82.1 / 88.0 | 57 | A |
| 57 | Send Surrey | 4,094 | 84.2 / 86.1 | 61 | A |
| … | |||||
| 813 | 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 Pitstone
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitstone | 4,109 | 83.6 / 87.4 | 7.3 mi | A |
| Cheddington | 1,770 | 83.6 / 87.4 | 6.7 mi | A |
| Tring | 11,961 | 81.5 / 86.3 | 6 mi | A |
| Eaton Bray and Edlesborough | 4,201 | 82.2 / 86.0 | 4.9 mi | A− |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 79.7 / 85.3 | 3.5 mi | A− |
| Totternhoe | 1,017 | 81.3 / 85.1 | 3.9 mi | B |
| Wingrave | 1,498 | 81.8 / 86.0 | 5.3 mi | A− |
| Wing | 2,979 | 81.8 / 86.0 | 7.9 mi | A− |
Aston Clinton, 4.1 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 79.7, 3.9 years shorter than Pitstone’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 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS 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 Pitstone
How healthy is Pitstone?
Pitstone earns an A for health, healthier than 95% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 55th of 813 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 83.6 for men and 87.4 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 60 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
How long are A&E waits at Stoke Mandeville Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 63% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 69%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Pitstone?
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.
How many GP practices are there in Pitstone?
There’s no GP surgery inside Pitstone itself; the nearest is about 3.2 mi away.
What is the life expectancy in Pitstone?
83.6 years for men and 87.4 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 72.1 of those years and women 73.7 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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