Photo: Trevor Harris · CC BY-SA 2.09 years separate the longest- and shortest-lived parts of Barnet
Inside the borough, men’s life expectancy runs from 77.1 in Burnt Oak & Watling Park to 85.9 in East Finchley, 4.1 miles apart. Life expectancy is 81.4 for men and 85.4 for women. Across England the figures for 2019 to 2023 are 79.1 and 83.0. Barnet grades B for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #6 of 33 in London.
What stands out about health in Barnet
A 9-year gap from one part of Barnet to another
Men in East Finchley can expect to live to 85.9, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Burnt Oak & Watling Park, 4.1 miles away, the figure is 77.1, and Ducks Island & Underhill records 103 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 82.1 in Mill Hill Broadway to 90.5 in Osidge. Neighbourhoods ↓
More patients are seen within four hours than across England, but 12-hour waits for a bed are commoner
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the A&E at Barnet General Hospital, saw 69% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 21st of 117 trusts. 31% 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 Barnet’s GP practices below England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 73% of patients at Barnet’s 46 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 49% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is behind 77% of English towns. GP practices ↓
Men live longer lives than Barnet’s level of deprivation would suggest
26% of Barnet’s residents are income-deprived. Across England’s towns that predicts men’s life expectancy of 78.3; Barnet’s is 81.4. 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.
Barnet grades B for health
Healthier than 63% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: child obesity and Census bad health (better than 39% and 48% of UK towns). What lifts it: disability (84%) and women’s life expectancy (77%). Among the 31 UK towns of 272,000 to 525,000 people, Barnet’s Health Grade is the 2nd 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 Barnet runs from 77.1 to 85.9
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Barnet’s 40 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation less closely inside Barnet than across England. Golders Green North, where 41% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 82.2, among the borough’s longest; Burnt Oak & Watling Park, with 40%, has the shortest. Ducks Island & Underhill has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (103 per 100 expected), against 66 in East Finchley.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Finchley | 85.9 | 85.5 | 66 | 64 | 16% | 20% |
| Finchley Central | 85.3 | 89.1 | 52 | 58 | 19% | 21% |
| Mill Hill Park | 85.1 | 86.5 | 59 | 66 | 18% | 16% |
| Edgware Park | 84.7 | 88.4 | 64 | 82 | 23% | 25% |
| Hampstead Garden Suburb | 84.6 | 87.9 | 43 | 55 | 17% | 7.8% |
| Temple Fortune | 84.4 | 88.0 | 64 | 64 | 16% | 24% |
| West Finchley | 84.3 | 87.3 | 44 | 60 | 13% | 9.8% |
| Church End | 83.7 | 88.3 | 59 | 68 | 15% | 19% |
| Oakleigh Park | 83.1 | 85.4 | 65 | 81 | 20% | 17% |
| Copthall & Downage | 83.0 | 87.4 | 56 | 69 | 18% | 21% |
| Oak Hill | 82.9 | 86.2 | 65 | 71 | 16% | 15% |
| Osidge | 82.8 | 90.5 | 65 | 75 | 15% | 12% |
| Childs Hill | 82.7 | 85.3 | 86 | 72 | 27% | 34% |
| Mill Hill East | 82.2 | 84.5 | 85 | 74 | 23% | 21% |
| Golders Green North | 82.2 | 85.3 | 75 | 85 | 17% | 41% |
| Whetstone East | 82.1 | 85.5 | 69 | 77 | 19% | 24% |
| Colney Hatch | 82.1 | 85.9 | 76 | 77 | 18% | 31% |
| Totteridge & Barnet Gate | 81.7 | 84.4 | 76 | 84 | 17% | 14% |
| Woodside Park | 81.6 | 84.3 | 75 | 82 | 16% | 21% |
| North Hendon & Sunny Hill | 81.3 | 87.7 | 68 | 77 | 25% | 28% |
| Golders Green South | 81.1 | 85.8 | 62 | 58 | 17% | 18% |
| Fallow Corner | 81.0 | 85.6 | 82 | 77 | 19% | 27% |
| Hendon Central | 80.8 | 86.4 | 84 | 75 | 21% | 28% |
| High Barnet & Hadley | 80.5 | 84.3 | 77 | 74 | 13% | 13% |
| North Finchley | 80.5 | 84.3 | 75 | 85 | 18% | 24% |
| New Barnet Town & East Barnet | 80.4 | 86.2 | 77 | 86 | 20% | 26% |
| Edgware East | 80.4 | 85.5 | 96 | 89 | 25% | 29% |
| North Cricklewood | 80.4 | 82.5 | 75 | 78 | 24% | 41% |
| Colindale West & South | 80.4 | 86.1 | 79 | — | 24% | 36% |
| Edgware Central | 80.2 | 85.4 | 77 | 92 | 27% | 33% |
| Friern Barnet | 80.1 | 82.3 | 76 | 86 | 20% | 22% |
| Hendon Park | 80.0 | 86.4 | 83 | 75 | 22% | 31% |
| Brunswick Park Road | 79.7 | 85.9 | 88 | 90 | 16% | 23% |
| Hadley Wood | 79.6 | 86.3 | 91 | 85 | 18% | 21% |
| New Barnet West | 79.2 | 85.8 | 77 | 74 | 19% | 22% |
| West Hendon | 78.8 | 82.4 | 90 | 94 | 29% | 33% |
| Mill Hill Broadway | 78.7 | 82.1 | 99 | 99 | 26% | 34% |
| Ducks Island & Underhill | 78.2 | 84.0 | 103 | 98 | 18% | 26% |
| Brent Cross & Staples Corner | 78.0 | 82.9 | 93 | 92 | 26% | 44% |
| Burnt Oak & Watling Park | 77.1 | 82.2 | 103 | 104 | 30% | 40% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Burnt Oak & Watling Park’s men’s life expectancy is 77.1 with a 95% range of 75.5 to 78.7. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Barnet; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Royal Free London saw 69% 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: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust runs the A&E at Barnet General Hospital, the nearest to Barnet (3 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 66% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 71% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 88% of trusts: 23,652 patients in 12 months, 31% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Barnet General Hospital: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2019), the hospital overall requires improvement (2019).
London trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4 mi | Finchley Memorial Hospital London · Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 2.7 mi | Edgware Community Hospital Edgware · Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 3 mi | Barnet General Hospital A&E Barnet · Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2019 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 3.3 mi | Hadley Wood Hospital Barnet · Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 4.1 mi | The Whittington Hospital A&E London · Whittington Health NHS Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
| 4.2 mi | The Royal Free Hospital A&E London · Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2021 | Requires improvement2019 |
| 4.7 mi | The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore) Stanmore · Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust | Good2019 | — |
| 5.4 mi | Northwick Park Hospital A&E Harrow · London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2025 |
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.
Men’s life expectancy in Barnet is 3.1 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.
26% of Barnet’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 78.3 years for men; Barnet’s is 81.4. For women it predicts 82.3, and Barnet’s 85.4 is 3.1 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.
73% of patients rate Barnet’s 46 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 20th of 28 English towns of 272,000 to 525,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JS Adler & F Rosenberg- The Surgery NW11 7NP · 4,665 adult patients | 92% good · range 86%–96% | 92% | 92% | Good2016 |
| Millway Medical Practice NW7 2HX · 19,155 adult patients | 91% good · range 61%–99% | 55% | 82% | Good2019 |
| Ravenscroft Medical Centre NW11 8BB · 4,692 adult patients | 89% good · range 83%–93% | 78% | 83% | Requires improvement2026 |
| Addington Medical Centre EN5 1QH · 7,963 adult patients | 89% good · range 75%–95% | 56% | 58% | Good2016 |
| Friern Barnet Medical Centre N11 3BU · 7,767 adult patients | 88% good · range 77%–95% | 60% | 87% | Good2017 |
| The Village Surgery EN4 8RF · 4,825 adult patients | 86% good · range 82%–89% | 73% | 76% | Good2018 |
| Hodford Road Surgery NW11 8NH · 3,606 adult patients | 83% good · range 78%–87% | 76% | 66% | Good2026 |
| Medical Centre HA8 9NT · 3,314 adult patients | 81% good · range 75%–86% | 69% | 76% | Good2018 |
| PHGH Doctors NW11 7TE · 10,194 adult patients | 80% good · range 65%–89% | 49% | 61% | Good2020 |
| Torrington Park Group Practice N12 9SS · 10,147 adult patients | 79% good · range 63%–89% | 41% | 68% | Good2025 |
| Watling Medical Centre HA8 0NR · 14,680 adult patients | 79% good · range 53%–92% | 54% | 74% | Good2018 |
| The Speedwell Practice N12 9SS · 10,087 adult patients | 78% good · range 62%–89% | 62% | 74% | Good2018 |
| The Practice @ 188 NW11 9AY · 8,804 adult patients | 78% good · range 63%–88% | 60% | 59% | Good2025 |
| The Mountfield Surgery N3 3NR · 4,255 adult patients | 77% good · range 71%–82% | 71% | 76% | Good2018 |
| Colney Hatch Lane Surgery N10 1ET · 4,138 adult patients | 76% good · range 71%–81% | 56% | 74% | Good2026 |
| Vale Drive Primary Care Centre EN5 2ED · 14,146 adult patients | 75% good · range 55%–88% | 50% | 71% | Not rated |
| Longrove Surgery EN5 4HT · 14,146 adult patients | 75% good · range 55%–88% | 50% | 71% | Good2022 |
| Oakleigh Road Health Centre N20 0DH · 8,310 adult patients | 74% good · range 64%–83% | 52% | 46% | Good2018 |
| Greenfield Medical Centre NW2 1HS · 5,757 adult patients | 74% good · range 66%–80% | 63% | 67% | Good2018 |
| Colindale Medical Centre Lp NW9 6DJ · 9,740 adult patients | 73% good · range 54%–86% | 46% | 53% | Good2018 |
| Parkview Surgery Edgware HA8 0RW · 4,872 adult patients | 73% good · range 62%–81% | 68% | 62% | Good2026 |
| Oak Lodge Medical Centre HA8 0AP · 13,936 adult patients | 73% good · range 49%–88% | 50% | 76% | Good2021 |
| Lichfield Grove Surgery N3 2JP · 4,917 adult patients | 72% good · range 66%–78% | 51% | 72% | Good2016 |
| Brunswick Park Medical Centre N11 1EY · 7,597 adult patients | 72% good · range 59%–82% | 44% | 57% | Good2017 |
| Supreme Medical Centre N3 2JX · 3,286 adult patients | 72% good · range 67%–76% | 52% | 61% | Good2017 |
| St George's Medical Centre NW4 4QR · 9,304 adult patients | 70% good · range 53%–82% | 42% | 54% | Good2017 |
| Lane End Medical Group HA8 9GJ · 11,292 adult patients | 69% good · range 52%–83% | 39% | 69% | Good2026 |
| Dr Muhammad Shahzad HA8 0AD · 5,842 adult patients | 69% good · range 61%–77% | 53% | 60% | Good2022 |
| Temple Fortune Health Centre NW11 7TE · 7,179 adult patients | 69% good · range 56%–80% | 46% | 53% | Good2017 |
| Rosemary Surgery N3 2QN · 5,006 adult patients | 69% good · range 64%–74% | 55% | 61% | Good2017 |
The 30 highest-rated of 46 practices shown.
JS Adler & F Rosenberg- The Surgery has the borough’s highest rating (92%). Millway Medical Practice is by far the largest, with 19,155 adult patients. 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 Barnet when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Care in and near Barnet
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 West and North London 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 Barnet).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of West and North London 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.
86% of residents say their health is good or very good
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 | Barnet | London | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 86% | 85% | 82% |
| Fair health | 10% | 10% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4% | 4.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 13% | 13% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 5.7% | 5.8% | 7.4% |
London and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Barnet’s Health Grade is 2nd of 31 UK towns of 272,000 to 525,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Barnet, and others in London. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bromley London | 325,469 | 81.3 / 85.1 | 78 | B+ |
| 2 | Barnet London | 388,572 | 81.4 / 85.4 | 77 | B |
| 3 | Wandsworth London | 326,725 | 79.8 / 84.5 | 85 | B− |
| 4 | Redbridge London | 309,509 | 79.6 / 84.0 | 91 | C+ |
| 5 | Hillingdon London | 307,089 | 79.1 / 83.9 | 97 | C+ |
| 6 | Ealing London | 367,271 | 79.4 / 84.4 | 93 | C+ |
| 7 | Brent London | 340,611 | 79.3 / 85.0 | 95 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Liverpool Merseyside | 506,564 | 75.7 / 79.6 | 148 | 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 Barnet
Life expectancy for men / women, and the nearest A&E. Tap a town for its health page.
Borehamwood, 4.4 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 77.6, 3.8 years shorter than Barnet’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 Royal Free London 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 Barnet.
- 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 Barnet
How healthy is Barnet?
Barnet earns a B for health, healthier than 63% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 2nd of 31 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 81.4 for men and 85.4 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 77 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Barnet have the highest life expectancy?
For men, East Finchley (85.9), Finchley Central (85.3) and Mill Hill Park (85.1); the shortest is Burnt Oak & Watling Park (77.1). For women, Osidge is highest (90.5) and Mill Hill Broadway lowest (82.1). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Barnet General Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 69% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 70%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Barnet?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 83% of adults in the West and North London 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 Barnet do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, JS Adler & F Rosenberg- The Surgery (92% good overall), Millway Medical Practice (91% good overall) and Ravenscroft Medical Centre (89% good overall). Across all 46 Barnet practices, 73% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Barnet?
81.4 years for men and 85.4 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 68.0 of those years and women 69.0 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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