Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0How long people live in Beeston: 80.1 for men and 83.2 for women
For 2019 to 2023, England’s figures are 79.1 and 83.0. Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 76.0 in Beeston Town to 83.2 in Toton, 2.2 miles apart. Beeston grades B− for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #16 of 49 in Nottinghamshire.
What stands out about health in Beeston
A&E waits run longer than England’s
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the A&E at Queen's Medical Centre, saw 43% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 116th of 117 trusts. 26% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
A 7-year gap from one part of Beeston to another
Men in Toton can expect to live to 83.2, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Beeston Town, 2.2 miles away, the figure is 76.0, and Beeston Town records 138 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 80.8 in Chilwell West to 86.4 in Toton. Neighbourhoods ↓
Patients rate Beeston’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 81% of patients at Beeston’s 5 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 67% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 58% 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.
Beeston grades B− for health
Healthier than 45% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: preventable deaths and deaths under 75 (better than 31% and 33% of UK towns). What lifts it: emergency admissions (76%) and child obesity (56%). Among the 142 UK towns of 37,000 to 71,000 people, Beeston’s Health Grade is the 22nd 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.
Nottingham University Hospitals saw 43% 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: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust runs the A&E at Queen's Medical Centre, the nearest to Beeston (2.4 mi).
The share seen within four hours slipped from an average of 47% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 44% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 86% of trusts: 11,018 patients in 12 months, 26% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Queen's Medical Centre: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2021), the hospital overall requires improvement (2026).
Midlands trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 mi | Queen's Medical Centre A&E Nottingham · Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2021 |
| 5.6 mi | Nottingham City Hospital Nottingham · Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2026 | — |
| 9.9 mi | Florence Nightingale Community Hospital Derby · University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 10 mi | Loughborough Hospital Loughborough · Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 10 mi | Loughborough Hospital Loughborough · University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 12 mi | Royal Derby Hospital A&E Derby · University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Requires improvement2026 | Requires improvement2026 |
| 15 mi | Coalville Community Hospital Coalville · Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 15 mi | King's Mill Hospital A&E Sutton In Ashfield · Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | Good2026 |
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 across Beeston runs from 76.0 to 83.2
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Beeston’s 7 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 Beeston than across England. Beeston North, where 18% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 81.5, among the town’s longest; Beeston Town, with 15%, has the shortest. Beeston Town has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (138 per 100 expected), against 55 in Toton.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toton | 83.2 | 86.4 | 55 | 67 | 15% | 6% |
| Bramcote | 82.2 | 86.0 | 60 | 71 | 11% | 7.7% |
| Beeston North | 81.5 | 83.7 | 90 | 80 | 24% | 18% |
| Attenborough & Chilwell East | 80.9 | 82.9 | 82 | 75 | 15% | 9.5% |
| Chilwell West | 79.5 | 80.8 | 108 | 88 | 19% | 22% |
| Beeston Rylands | 77.5 | 82.1 | 110 | 77 | 22% | 18% |
| Beeston Town | 76.0 | 80.9 | 138 | 84 | 21% | 15% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Beeston Town’s men’s life expectancy is 76.0 with a 95% range of 74.5 to 77.6. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Beeston; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
81% of patients rate Beeston’s 5 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 26th of 117 English towns of 37,000 to 71,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Oaks Medical Centre NG9 2NY · 9,799 adult patients | 90% good · range 81%–94% | 81% | 80% | Outstanding2016 |
| Drs Charles, Read, Mannion, Shapiro, Prabhu & Hewson NG9 1GA · 11,439 adult patients | 83% good · range 70%–91% | 69% | 87% | Outstanding2018 |
| Abbey Medical Centre NG9 2QP · 4,042 adult patients | 80% good · range 75%–85% | 77% | 79% | Good2016 |
| Chilwell Valley and Meadows Practice NG9 4ET · 12,713 adult patients | 76% good · range 59%–87% | 50% | 60% | Outstanding2016 |
| Bramcote Surgery NG9 3HF · 3,050 adult patients | 73% good · range 70%–76% | 77% | 71% | Outstanding2017 |
The Oaks Medical Centre has the town’s highest rating (90%). 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 Beeston 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 Beeston is 0.8 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.
14% of Beeston’s residents are income-deprived, less than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 80.9 years for men; Beeston’s is 80.1. For women it predicts 84.5, and Beeston’s 83.2 is 1.3 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 Beeston
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 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire 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 Beeston).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire patients who did, 72% 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, 82 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Beeston | Nottinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 80% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 14% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.5% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 7% | 8.5% | 7.4% |
Nottinghamshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Beeston’s Health Grade is 22nd of 142 UK towns of 37,000 to 71,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Beeston, and others in Nottinghamshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| 3 | West Molesey Surrey | 47,144 | 82.5 / 86.3 | 63 | A |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Farnborough Hampshire | 60,665 | 80.6 / 84.4 | 87 | B− |
| 21 | Sale Greater Manchester | 62,545 | 79.7 / 84.0 | 86 | B− |
| 22 | Beeston Nottinghamshire | 52,359 | 80.1 / 83.2 | 93 | B− |
| 23 | Eastleigh Hampshire | 48,355 | 80.5 / 84.8 | 81 | C+ |
| 24 | Lytham St Anne's Lancashire | 42,693 | 79.3 / 83.8 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Arnold Nottinghamshire | 40,016 | 80.1 / 83.7 | 90 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 44 | Carlton Nottinghamshire | 53,555 | 79.0 / 82.7 | 98 | C |
| … | |||||
| 89 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 77.9 / 81.5 | 124 | D |
| … | |||||
| 142 | Greenock Inverclyde | 42,870 | 73.5 / 78.2 | — | 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 Beeston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beeston | 52,359 | 80.1 / 83.2 | 2.4 mi | B− |
| Stapleford | 15,041 | 80.3 / 84.2 | 3.7 mi | C |
| Clifton | 22,936 | 76.5 / 80.4 | 2.8 mi | D |
| Trowell | 2,165 | 81.2 / 83.8 | 3.8 mi | B− |
| Sandiacre | 9,373 | 77.1 / 80.5 | 4.8 mi | C |
| Wilford | 4,849 | 80.2 / 85.1 | 1.8 mi | B |
| Long Eaton | 37,815 | 78.7 / 83.0 | 5.5 mi | C |
| Ruddington | 7,491 | 81.2 / 83.6 | 3.7 mi | B |
Clifton, 2.4 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 76.5, 3.6 years shorter than Beeston’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 Nottingham University 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 Beeston.
- 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 Beeston
How healthy is Beeston?
Beeston earns a B− for health, healthier than 45% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 22nd of 142 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 80.1 for men and 83.2 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 93 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Beeston have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Toton (83.2), Bramcote (82.2) and Beeston North (81.5); the shortest is Beeston Town (76.0). For women, Toton is highest (86.4) and Chilwell West lowest (80.8). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Queen's Medical Centre?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 43% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 45%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Beeston?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 83% of adults in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire 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 Beeston do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, The Oaks Medical Centre (90% good overall), Drs Charles, Read, Mannion, Shapiro, Prabhu & Hewson (83% good overall) and Abbey Medical Centre (80% good overall). Across all 5 Beeston practices, 81% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Beeston?
80.1 years for men and 83.2 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 66.6 of those years and women 67.4 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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