Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Evesham is 79.2 for men and 83.1 for women
For 2019 to 2023, England’s figures are 79.1 and 83.0. Evesham grades C+ for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #18 of 22 in Worcestershire.
What stands out about health in Evesham
A&E waits run longer than England’s
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the A&E at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, saw 53% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 88th of 117 trusts. 32% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
More of Evesham’s children are obese
24% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; more than in 85% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
Patients rate Evesham’s GP practices above England’s
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 84% of patients at Evesham’s 4 practices called their overall experience good, against 77% across England, and 70% found it easy to get through by phone (57% in England). That is ahead of 67% 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.
Evesham grades C+ for health
Healthier than 36% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
What holds the grade back: child obesity and preventable deaths (better than 15% and 18% of UK towns). What lifts it: disability (60%) and Census bad health (56%). Among the 266 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Evesham’s Health Grade is the 116th 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.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals saw 53% 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: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust runs the A&E at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the nearest to Evesham (12 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 49% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 55% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 89% of trusts: 12,341 patients in 12 months, 32% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Worcestershire Royal Hospital: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2024), the hospital overall requires improvement (2025).
Midlands trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2 mi | Evesham Community Hospital Evesham · Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 0.2 mi | Evesham Community Hospital Evesham · Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2019 | — |
| 6 mi | Pershore Community Hospital Pershore · Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 11 mi | Tewkesbury Hospital Tewkesbury · Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 11 mi | Tewkesbury Community Hospital Tewkesbury · Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 12 mi | Stratford Hospital Stratford Upon Avon · South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 12 mi | North Cotswolds Hospital Moreton-in-marsh · Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust | Not rated | — |
| 12 mi | Worcestershire Royal Hospital A&E Worcester · Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Requires improvement2025 | Requires improvement2024 |
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.
84% of patients rate Evesham’s 4 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 46th of 224 English towns of 20,000 to 38,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merstow Green Medical Practice WR11 4BS · 8,578 adult patients | 88% good · range 78%–94% | 78% | 89% | Good2018 |
| Dr Nederlof and Partners WR11 1JP · 13,044 adult patients | 84% good · range 64%–94% | 65% | 91% | Good2025 |
| Abbey Medical Practice WR11 4BS · 7,783 adult patients | 80% good · range 70%–88% | 66% | 67% | Good2024 |
| DeMontfort Medical Centre WR11 3HD · 6,931 adult patients | 80% good · range 70%–87% | 74% | 89% | Good2019 |
Merstow Green Medical Practice has the town’s highest rating (88%). 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 Evesham 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 across Evesham runs from 75.5 to 81.7
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Evesham’s 4 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
Evesham Central has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (154 per 100 expected), against 96 in Evesham North & Hampton.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evesham North & Hampton | 81.7 | 83.7 | 96 | 85 | 20% | 19% |
| Evesham East | 80.6 | 84.1 | 79 | 80 | 27% | 16% |
| Evesham South | 78.0 | 82.7 | 104 | 90 | 26% | 21% |
| Evesham Central | 75.5 | 81.5 | 154 | 99 | 25% | 29% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Evesham Central’s men’s life expectancy is 75.5 with a 95% range of 73.4 to 77.5. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Evesham; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
Men’s life expectancy in Evesham is about 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.
21% of Evesham’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 79.4 years for men; Evesham’s is 79.2. For women it predicts 83.2, and Evesham’s 83.1 is close to it.
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 Evesham
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 Herefordshire and Worcestershire 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 Evesham).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Herefordshire and Worcestershire 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.
83% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 79 report bad health for every 100 expected, fewer than the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Evesham | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 82% | 82% |
| Fair health | 13% | 13% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 5.1% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 6.3% | 7.3% | 7.4% |
Worcestershire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Evesham’s Health Grade is 116th of 266 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Evesham, and others in Worcestershire. 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+ |
| … | |||||
| 99 | Bromsgrove Worcestershire | 34,759 | 79.8 / 83.3 | 86 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 101 | Great Malvern Worcestershire | 33,194 | 79.6 / 83.2 | 90 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 114 | Droitwich Spa Worcestershire | 26,413 | 79.6 / 83.5 | 93 | C+ |
| 115 | Broadstairs Kent | 25,780 | 79.2 / 83.4 | 95 | C+ |
| 116 | Evesham Worcestershire | 28,256 | 79.2 / 83.1 | 105 | C+ |
| 117 | Dunstable Bedfordshire | 34,498 | 79.5 / 83.4 | 95 | C+ |
| 118 | Pudsey West Yorkshire | 34,853 | 79.0 / 82.2 | 99 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 133 | Stourport-on-Severn Worcestershire | 20,302 | 78.7 / 82.4 | 105 | C |
| … | |||||
| 266 | Clydebank West Dunbartonshire | 26,220 | 72.3 / 78.5 | — | 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 Evesham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evesham | 28,256 | 79.2 / 83.1 | 12 mi | C+ |
| Offenham | 1,507 | 77.7 / 83.5 | 12 mi | C+ |
| Badsey | 2,722 | 77.7 / 83.5 | 13 mi | C+ |
| Bretforton | 1,190 | 77.7 / 83.5 | 13 mi | C+ |
| Harvington | 1,717 | 77.7 / 83.5 | 9.7 mi | C+ |
| Honeybourne | 3,104 | 80.0 / 86.7 | 13 mi | C+ |
| Broadway | 2,719 | 82.7 / 85.4 | 14 mi | A− |
| Pershore | 8,207 | 79.8 / 81.9 | 6.8 mi | C+ |
Broadway, 4.8 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 82.7, 3.5 years longer than Evesham’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 Worcestershire Acute 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 Evesham.
- 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 Evesham
How healthy is Evesham?
Evesham earns a C+ for health, healthier than 36% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 116th of 266 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 79.2 for men and 83.1 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 105 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
How long are A&E waits at Worcestershire Royal Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 53% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 53%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Evesham?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 83% of adults in the Herefordshire and Worcestershire 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 Evesham do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Merstow Green Medical Practice (88% good overall), Dr Nederlof and Partners (84% good overall) and Abbey Medical Practice (80% good overall). Across all 4 Evesham practices, 84% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Evesham?
79.2 years for men and 83.1 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 65.6 of those years and women 67.6 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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