Photo: Small-town hero · Public domainLife expectancy in Ormskirk is 79.8 for men and 82.7 for women
England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Ormskirk grades C+ for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #22 of 65 in Lancashire.
What stands out about health in Ormskirk
Men live shorter lives than Ormskirk’s level of deprivation would suggest
10% of Ormskirk’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 81.6; Ormskirk’s is 79.8. For its circumstances ↓
Patients rate Ormskirk’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 82% of patients at Ormskirk’s 4 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 65% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 61% 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.
Ormskirk grades C+ for health
Healthier than 40% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: preventable deaths and deaths under 75 (better than 25% and 26% of UK towns). What lifts it: child obesity (51%) and women’s years in good health (49%). Among the 285 UK towns of 19,000 to 37,000 people, Ormskirk’s Health Grade is the 113th 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.
82% of patients rate Ormskirk’s 4 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 68th of 242 English towns of 19,000 to 37,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aughton Surgery L39 6SE · 5,275 adult patients | 93% good · range 88%–96% | 73% | 74% | Good2026 |
| The Elms Medical Practice L39 2BY · 3,979 adult patients | 91% good · range 86%–94% | 72% | 82% | Good2023 |
| Ormskirk Medical Practice L39 2BY · 8,127 adult patients | 81% good · range 73%–87% | 57% | 80% | Good2026 |
| Parkgate Surgery L39 4QR · 8,058 adult patients | 72% good · range 61%–81% | 66% | 60% | Outstanding2016 |
Aughton Surgery has the town’s highest rating (93%). CQC inspections and patients don’t always agree: the one practice CQC rates outstanding, Parkgate Surgery, is the one patients rate lowest, at 72%. 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 Ormskirk 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 Ormskirk is 1.8 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.
10% of Ormskirk’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 81.6 years for men; Ormskirk’s is 79.8. For women it predicts 85.1, and Ormskirk’s 82.7 is 2.4 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.
Men’s life expectancy across Ormskirk runs from 77.4 to 81.3
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Ormskirk’s 3 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
Ormskirk Town & East has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (129 per 100 expected), against 89 in Ormskirk North & West.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ormskirk North & West | 81.3 | 82.5 | 89 | 95 | 20% | 13% |
| Aughton | 80.6 | 84.1 | 73 | 87 | 14% | 6.8% |
| Ormskirk Town & East | 77.4 | 81.3 | 129 | 101 | 21% | 12% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Ormskirk Town & East’s men’s life expectancy is 77.4 with a 95% range of 75.8 to 79.0. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Ormskirk; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Care in and near Ormskirk
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.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals 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: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust runs the A&E at Ormskirk District General Hospital, the nearest to Ormskirk (0.8 mi).
The share seen within four hours has held near 63% over 18 months. Long waits for a bed are rarer than at 68% of trusts: 5,788 patients in 12 months, 6.2% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Ormskirk District General Hospital: urgent and emergency services good (2016), the hospital overall requires improvement (2019).
North West trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.8 mi | Ormskirk District General Hospital A&E Ormskirk · Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2019 | Good2016 |
| 6.1 mi | Southport and Formby District General Hospital A&E Southport · Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2019 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 6.9 mi | University Hospital Aintree A&E Liverpool · Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Good2025 |
| 7.6 mi | Wrightington Hospital Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2020 | — |
| 9.8 mi | Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool · Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust | Good2020 | — |
| 10 mi | Broadgreen Hospital Liverpool · Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 10 mi | Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Liverpool · Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Outstanding2019 | — |
| 11 mi | Royal Albert Edward Infirmary A&E Wigan · Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
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.
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 Ormskirk).
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.
More people in Ormskirk call their health good than across Lancashire
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 85 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
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| Census 2021 | Ormskirk | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 80% | 82% |
| Fair health | 12% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.7% | 6.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 7.5% | 9.1% | 7.4% |
Lancashire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Ormskirk’s Health Grade is 113th of 285 UK towns of 19,000 to 37,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Ormskirk, 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 | Great Bookham and Fetcham Surrey | 21,655 | 83.4 / 87.3 | 58 | A+ |
| 3 | Hazlemere Buckinghamshire | 20,006 | 83.0 / 86.3 | 63 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 77 | Penwortham Lancashire | 20,489 | 81.3 / 85.1 | 78 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 111 | Yate Gloucestershire | 28,352 | 80.2 / 84.1 | 85 | C+ |
| 112 | Dereham Norfolk | 20,788 | 80.4 / 84.2 | 92 | C+ |
| 113 | Ormskirk Lancashire | 27,720 | 79.8 / 82.7 | 98 | C+ |
| 114 | Falmouth Cornwall | 24,066 | 79.8 / 84.0 | 93 | C+ |
| 115 | Stanford-le-Hope Essex | 29,527 | 80.1 / 83.7 | 92 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 133 | Thornton Lancashire | 19,263 | 79.5 / 82.7 | 108 | C |
| … | |||||
| 154 | Fulwood Lancashire | 34,693 | 79.0 / 82.1 | 112 | C |
| … | |||||
| 285 | Bellshill North Lanarkshire | 19,488 | 73.1 / 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 Ormskirk
Life expectancy for men / women, and the nearest A&E. Tap a town for its health page.
Skelmersdale, 5 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 75.2, 4.6 years shorter than Ormskirk’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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals 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).
- 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 Ormskirk.
- 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 Ormskirk
How healthy is Ormskirk?
Ormskirk earns a C+ for health, healthier than 40% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 113th of 285 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.8 for men and 82.7 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 98 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
How long are A&E waits at Ormskirk District General Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS 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 63%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Ormskirk?
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 Ormskirk do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Aughton Surgery (93% good overall), The Elms Medical Practice (91% good overall) and Ormskirk Medical Practice (81% good overall). Across all 4 Ormskirk practices, 82% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Ormskirk?
79.8 years for men and 82.7 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 67.3 of those years and women 68.9 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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