St Amand’s Catholic Primary School in East Hendred has said it will be closing at 12.30pm tomorrow (Friday, July 10) due to “severe weather”.

Temperatures are set to hit 33°C in Oxford and will be hotter across the country with the record for the number of days the UK has seen 34°C or higher in a calendar year having now been broken.

St Amand’s Catholic Primary School, East Hendred (Image: Google Maps)

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Currently St Amand’s is the only school to have announced a closure to the county council, although some have already broken up for the summer holidays.

During the last heatwave in June hundreds of schools across the county announced full or partial closures over several days.

This was amid record-breaking 34°C conditions.

The results of the 2026 GP Patient Survey for NHS England were released today (Thursday, July 9) containing data including how easy patients find it to contact their GP as well as reception and administration ratings.

The public also gave their views of the ‘overall experience’ of their local GP surgery, ranking them very good, fairly good, neither good nor poor, fairly poor and very poor.

Almost 3 million surveys were distributed by market research agency Ipsos with around 650,000 responses received in England between January and April.

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On average 46 per cent of people gave their GP the highest grade, while only 4 per cent gave their GP the lowest.

Wychwood Surgery in Shipton-under-Wychwood (Image: Google Maps)

In Oxfordshire the best performing GP surgery was Wychwood in Shipton-under-Wychwood, with 90 per cent of respondents rating it very good and none giving it a fairly or very poor rating.

Berinsfield Health Centre near Wallingford also performed well with an 88 per cent very good rating as did Cropredy Surgery on 86 per cent and Sibford on 85 per cent.

The Bell and Islip both received 80 per cent very good ratings.

Temple Cowley Surgery (Image: Google Maps)

Technically the worst performing GP surgery in Oxfordshire was Luther Street Medical Practice in Oxford with 14 per cent of respondents calling it very poor.

However only 4 per cent of its patients asked filled in the survey with 55 per cent of them in fact giving it the highest grade, above the national average.

Another Oxford-based surgery, Temple Cowley, wasn’t far behind with 13 per cent saying it is very poor.

Luther Street Medical Practice (Image: Google Maps)

Around a quarter of those asked filled in the NHS survey for Temple Cowley (more than the national average), with 3 per cent rating it fairly poor and 12 per cent saying it’s neither good nor poor.

Also performing badly were Nuffield Health Centre in Witney and Woodlands Medical Centre in Didcot, which both received 10 per cent very poor scores.

At Oak Tree Health Centre in Didcot, 8 per cent of patients thought it was very poor.

Berinsfield Health Centre (Image: Google Maps)

The survey also revealed that a rising number of people are turning to online GP services to get in touch with their local surgery.

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Some 31 per cent of people contacted their GP service online when they needed care, up from 22 per cent in 2025 and 17 per cent in 2024.

About 69 per cent said the wait for their last appointment was “about right”.

Almost three-quarters (74 per cent) said their last appointment was face to face, up from 69 per cent in 2024.

And 23 per cent were dealt with over the phone, down from 29 per cent.

Great Western Railway has said that damage on overhead electric wires has caused mass disruption on lines between Reading and Paddington, with Oxford commuters often using that route.

A spokesperson said: “Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Reading all lines are blocked.

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“Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.”

Indeed, the majority of trains between the stations are delayed and several have been cancelled.

In addition, the railway company has said trains between Gatwick Airport and Reading may be cancelled, due to repairs.