THREE GPs' practices across the Bradford district have received a good care ranking in a national inspection.

Dr Mills & Partners in Procter Street, off Tong Street and Queensbury Health Centre in Russell Street and its parent surgery Wibsey and Queensbury Medical Centre in Fair Road, Wibsey, were all rated as good in the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) latest report.

They were among 59 practices across the country that had assessments published by the watchdog yesterday. No one from any of the local surgeries was available for comment.

Under CQC’s new programme of inspections, all of England’s GP practices are being given a rating to see if they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.

Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice, said: “We know that the vast majority of England's GPs are providing a service which is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. If that is what we find on inspection - we give it a rating of Good, and I congratulate the GPs and staff in these practices.

“Patients should be able to expect high quality and consistent care from every GP practice. Where we have required improvement, we will expect the practice to take the necessary steps to address the issue, and we will return at a later date to check that those improvements have been made.

"If we find a practice to be Inadequate, we will normally put it into special measures, to allow the practice to access support available from NHS England and to ensure there is co-ordinated response to help the practice improve.”

To read the full report on the surgeries, visit cqc.org.uk.