Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.09 years separate the longest- and shortest-lived parts of Bamber Bridge
Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 74.0 in Clayton Brook to 82.8 in Clayton-le-Woods, 0.8 miles apart. Life expectancy is 79.3 for men and 82.0 for women. England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Bamber Bridge grades C for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #33 of 65 in Lancashire.
What stands out about health in Bamber Bridge
A 9-year gap from one part of Bamber Bridge to another
Men in Clayton-le-Woods can expect to live to 82.8, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Clayton Brook, 0.8 miles away, the figure is 74.0, and Clayton Brook records 181 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 77.6 in Clayton Brook to 84.2 in Lostock Hall. Neighbourhoods ↓
More A&E patients are seen within four hours than across England
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 34th of 117 trusts. 13% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
Patients rate Bamber Bridge’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 81% of patients at Bamber Bridge’s 7 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 61% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 55% 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.
Bamber Bridge grades C for health
Healthier than 27% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, disability and men’s life expectancy, are in the bottom 40% of UK towns; emergency admissions and deaths under 75 are furthest behind. Among the 208 UK towns of 28,000 to 54,000 people, Bamber Bridge’s Health Grade is the 100th 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 across Bamber Bridge runs from 74.0 to 82.8
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Bamber Bridge’s 6 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Clayton Brook, where 36% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 74.0. Clayton Brook has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (181 per 100 expected), against 79 in Clayton-le-Woods.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton-le-Woods | 82.8 | 84.0 | 79 | 97 | 21% | 8.4% |
| Walton-le-Dale | 80.9 | 81.9 | 75 | 88 | 16% | 10% |
| Lostock Hall | 80.1 | 84.2 | 82 | 106 | 20% | 14% |
| Bamber Bridge West | 79.0 | 82.1 | 109 | 122 | 24% | 23% |
| Bamber Bridge East | 78.9 | 80.2 | 126 | 115 | 22% | 20% |
| Clayton Brook | 74.0 | 77.6 | 181 | 129 | 28% | 36% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Clayton Brook’s men’s life expectancy is 74.0 with a 95% range of 72.0 to 76.1. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Bamber Bridge; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals saw 65% 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: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, the nearest to Bamber Bridge (4.3 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 63% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 67% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are close to the typical trust’s: 4,894 patients in 12 months, 13% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Chorley and South Ribble Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2023), the hospital overall requires improvement (2023).
North West trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 mi | Chorley and South Ribble Hospital A&E Chorley · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2023 | Good2023 |
| 4.8 mi | Royal Preston Hospital A&E Preston · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2023 | Requires improvement2023 |
| 4.8 mi | Royal Preston Hospital Preston · Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 7.7 mi | Longridge Hospital Preston · Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 8.3 mi | Royal Blackburn Hospital A&E Blackburn · East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2019 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 9.6 mi | Wrightington Hospital Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2020 | — |
| 12 mi | Royal Albert Edward Infirmary A&E Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
| 14 mi | Ormskirk District General Hospital A&E Ormskirk · Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2019 | Good2016 |
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.
81% of patients rate Bamber Bridge’s 7 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 56th of 169 English towns of 28,000 to 54,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittle Surgery PR6 7PY · 9,509 adult patients | 87% good · range 75%–94% | 65% | 84% | Not rated |
| Lostock Hall Medical Centre PR5 5AD · 5,302 adult patients | 83% good · range 75%–89% | 72% | 64% | Good2024 |
| Dr Dawoud's Surgery PR6 7EH · 2,474 adult patients | 83% good · range 79%–86% | 80% | 87% | Good2022 |
| The Ryan Medical Centre PR5 6JD · 8,980 adult patients | 81% good · range 69%–89% | 65% | 73% | Good2018 |
| Roslea Surgery PR5 6PE · 7,156 adult patients | 80% good · range 69%–88% | 60% | 87% | Good2026 |
| Riverside Medical Centre PR5 4AY · 8,883 adult patients | 74% good · range 65%–82% | 39% | 81% | Good2017 |
| Clayton Brook Surgery PR5 8ES · 2,757 adult patients | 74% good · range 69%–78% | 72% | 79% | Good2022 |
Whittle Surgery has the town’s highest rating (87%). 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 Bamber Bridge 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 Bamber Bridge is 0.7 years below 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.
18% of Bamber Bridge’s residents are income-deprived, about the middle for English towns. For that level, the line predicts 80.0 years for men; Bamber Bridge’s is 79.3. For women it predicts 83.7, and Bamber Bridge’s 82.0 is 1.7 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 Bamber Bridge
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.
83% of adults in the Lancashire and South Cumbria 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 Bamber Bridge).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Lancashire and South Cumbria 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.
82% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 99 report bad health for every 100 expected, close to the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Bamber Bridge | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 80% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.4% | 6.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 19% | 20% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 8.1% | 9.1% | 7.4% |
Lancashire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Bamber Bridge’s Health Grade is 100th of 208 UK towns of 28,000 to 54,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Bamber Bridge, and others in Lancashire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harpenden Hertfordshire | 30,964 | 83.0 / 86.8 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 3 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 60 | Lytham St Anne's Lancashire | 42,693 | 79.3 / 83.8 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 98 | Braintree Essex | 43,179 | 78.7 / 81.9 | 108 | C |
| 99 | Banbury Oxfordshire | 52,041 | 78.9 / 82.5 | 106 | C |
| 100 | Bamber Bridge Lancashire | 40,359 | 79.3 / 82.0 | 106 | C |
| 101 | Grays Essex | 44,340 | 77.9 / 82.3 | 109 | C |
| 102 | Fulwood Lancashire | 34,693 | 79.0 / 82.1 | 112 | C |
| … | |||||
| 104 | Leyland Lancashire | 39,281 | 79.0 / 83.1 | 111 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 116 | Lancaster Lancashire | 52,646 | 76.7 / 81.8 | 124 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 208 | Wishaw North Lanarkshire | 30,190 | 72.6 / 77.9 | — | 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 Bamber Bridge
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bamber Bridge | 40,359 | 79.3 / 82.0 | 4.3 mi | C |
| Higher Walton | 1,607 | 79.7 / 86.6 | 4.3 mi | B |
| Gregson Lane | 2,073 | 80.0 / 86.2 | 4.6 mi | B+ |
| Farington Moss | 2,692 | 78.9 / 85.3 | 4.2 mi | C+ |
| Coup Green | 1,208 | 79.7 / 86.6 | 5 mi | B+ |
| Leyland | 39,281 | 79.0 / 83.1 | 3.3 mi | C− |
| Penwortham | 20,489 | 81.3 / 85.1 | 3.5 mi | B− |
| Whittle-le-Woods | 4,388 | 81.5 / 84.0 | 1.4 mi | B+ |
Whittle-le-Woods, 3 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 81.5, 2.2 years longer than Bamber Bridge’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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals 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 Bamber Bridge.
- 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 Bamber Bridge
How healthy is Bamber Bridge?
Bamber Bridge earns a C for health, healthier than 27% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 100th of 208 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.3 for men and 82.0 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 106 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Bamber Bridge have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Clayton-le-Woods (82.8), Walton-le-Dale (80.9) and Lostock Hall (80.1); the shortest is Clayton Brook (74.0). For women, Lostock Hall is highest (84.2) and Clayton Brook lowest (77.6). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 68%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Bamber Bridge?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 83% of adults in the Lancashire and South Cumbria 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 Bamber Bridge do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Whittle Surgery (87% good overall), Lostock Hall Medical Centre (83% good overall) and Dr Dawoud's Surgery (83% good overall). Across all 7 Bamber Bridge practices, 81% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Bamber Bridge?
79.3 years for men and 82.0 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 65.3 of those years and women 65.7 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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