For example eastfieldsurgery.nhs.uk, or paste the full address. We check the public DNS record only. Nothing is stored and we do not ask for your email.
The two dates that matter
- 1 September 2026, passed Support and site updates stopped, and practices were asked to say where their domain should point.
- Now Sites are still up but nobody is maintaining them. Content changes, security patching and accessibility fixes are not happening.
- 31 March 2027 Agreements terminate and hosting stops completely. This is the real deadline. A practice that has not moved by then has no website.
What to do if you are affected
1. Find out who controls your domain name
Your domain is yours, not your website supplier's, but the registration may sit with a supplier account. Establish who can change where it points before you need to, because this is the step that most often causes delay.
2. Get a copy of your content
Practice policies, staff pages, clinic times, patient information and translations took years to accumulate. Save them now, while the site is still up, rather than in March.
3. Choose deliberately, not by default
Practices are being pointed towards a single successor supplier. That is a default, not a decision. Get at least one comparison quote and check what happens to your price at renewal.
4. Move with time to spare
Leaving it to the last month means competing for attention with every other practice doing the same thing. Migration is straightforward when it is not urgent.
Common questions
How does this check work?
Every practice site hosted on My Surgery Website resolves to the same server address. We look up the public DNS record for your domain and compare it. That record is public information, the same thing any browser looks up when it loads your site. We do not scan, log in to, or store anything about your website.
It says my site is not on My Surgery Website. Am I definitely safe?
Not necessarily. It means we cannot detect My Surgery Website hosting from your DNS record. If your site sits behind a content delivery network such as Cloudflare, the origin is hidden and no external check can see it. Your contract paperwork or your supplier is the definitive answer.
Does my practice have to move?
If your site is hosted by My Surgery Website, yes. Hosting stops on 31 March 2027, at which point the site stops being served. Moving is not optional, only the timing and the destination are.
Will patients notice the change?
They should not. A migration done properly keeps the same web address, so existing links, letters and search results continue to work. The change happens behind the domain.
Who made this checker?
Practice Digital, a small tech and clinical team that builds GP practice websites. We built the check because we were asked the same question repeatedly. It is free and it works whether or not you ever talk to us.
If you would rather not do this alone
We build NHS GP practice websites for £399 a year, with no setup fee, and we migrate your existing content across at no charge. If you leave us later we migrate it out free too, so this cannot happen to you a second time.
Method: this check compares your domain's public A record against the server address used by My Surgery Website hosted practice sites, verified against live practice sites and My Surgery Website's own template sites in August 2026. It is a strong indicator, not a substitute for your contract. Last reviewed September 2026.