Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0People in Wittering live longer than across England: 82.4 for men and 85.5 for women
Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Wittering grades A− 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 Wittering
Fewer of Wittering’s children are obese
16% 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 74% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
Men live longer lives than Wittering’s level of deprivation would suggest
12% of Wittering’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 81.3; Wittering’s is 82.4. For its circumstances ↓
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.
Wittering grades A− for health
Healthier than 78% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: Census bad health and disability (better than 41% and 48% of UK towns). What lifts it: deaths under 75 (90%) and men’s years in good health (89%).
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.
Wittering is a military garrison town: most residents serve or work for the armed forces and live in service housing, so it keeps its grades but isn’t ranked against other towns.
Men’s life expectancy in Wittering is 1.1 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 Wittering’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.3 years for men; Wittering’s is 82.4. For women it predicts 84.8, and Wittering’s 85.5 is 0.7 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 Wittering
The nearest A&E, GP practices, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
North West Anglia saw 62% 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: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Peterborough City Hospital, the nearest to Wittering (6.9 mi).
The share seen within four hours has held near 62% over 18 months. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 79% of trusts: 10,126 patients in 12 months, 22% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Peterborough City Hospital: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2025), the hospital overall requires improvement (2025).
East of England trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 mi | Stamford & Rutland Hospital Stamford · North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Good2019 | — |
| 6.9 mi | Peterborough City Hospital A&E Peterborough · North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2025 |
| 13 mi | Rutland Memorial Hospital Oakham · Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 14 mi | Corby Community Hospital Corby · Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 18 mi | Johnson Community Hospital Spalding · United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 18 mi | Johnson Community Hospital Spalding · Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 19 mi | Kettering General Hospital A&E Kettering · Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2024 | Requires improvement2024 |
| 19 mi | Kettering General Hospital Kettering · Northampton General Hospital 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 Wittering itself
The nearest practices.
| Practice | Distance | CQC rating |
|---|---|---|
| Wansford & Kings Cliffe Practice Peterborough PE8 6PL | 2.1 mi | Good2016 |
| The Stamford Surgery Stamford PE9 1YA | 3.6 mi | Requires improvement2024 |
| Ailsworth Medical Centre Peterborough PE5 7AF | 4.2 mi | Good2021 |
| Bretton Medical Practice Peterborough PE3 8DT | 6.7 mi | Good2023 |
| The Willow Tree Surgery Peterborough PE2 5RQ | 7.2 mi | Good2026 |
| Westwood Clinic Peterborough PE3 7JW | 7.3 mi | Good2021 |
GP practices registered with the Care Quality Commission, placed in the town by their postcode. A practice counts as in Wittering 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 Wittering).
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.
More people in Wittering call their health good than across Cambridgeshire
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Wittering’s residents are younger than Cambridgeshire’s (6% are 65 or over, against 17%), which accounts for much of the difference. Adjusted for age, 92 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Wittering | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 88% | 84% | 82% |
| Fair health | 8.6% | 12% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.2% | 4.4% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 4.8% | 6.2% | 7.4% |
Cambridgeshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Health in the places around Wittering
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wittering | 2,678 | 82.4 / 85.5 | 6.9 mi | A− |
| Barnack | 1,007 | 82.4 / 85.5 | 6.4 mi | A− |
| Easton on the Hill | 1,096 | 81.8 / 86.3 | 10 mi | A− |
| Stamford | 20,745 | 80.7 / 84.6 | 10 mi | B |
| King's Cliffe | 1,581 | 81.8 / 86.3 | 10 mi | A− |
| Helpston | 1,249 | 82.4 / 85.5 | 4.5 mi | A |
| Castor and Ailsworth | 1,461 | 83.2 / 83.8 | 2.9 mi | A− |
| Ketton | 1,618 | 82.5 / 84.9 | 12 mi | A |
Stamford, 3.9 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 80.7, 1.7 years shorter than Wittering’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 North West Anglia 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 Wittering
How healthy is Wittering?
Wittering earns an A− for health, healthier than 78% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age. Life expectancy is 82.4 for men and 85.5 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 62 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
How long are A&E waits at Peterborough City Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 62% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 61%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Wittering?
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 Wittering?
There’s no GP surgery inside Wittering itself; the nearest is about 2.1 mi away.
What is the life expectancy in Wittering?
82.4 years for men and 85.5 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 71.2 of those years and women 70.6 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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