What is the ranking of your hospital trust.

MaizieD

Babs03

MaizieD
Here is a link
www.itv.com/news/2025-09-08/nhs-england-trusts-ranked-with-best-performers-to-receive-more-money

I must be very dim

I have the NHS England table with the rankings of all the NHS Trusts. I've found my trust's ranking (as I said earlier)

Your link to the ITV page isn't at al helpful with regard to individual hospitals. What am I missing?

Try this:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8eqxlypv7o

Sorry I thought the link was helpful but hadn’t actually tried it I got my hospital’s rankings from a friend on WhatsApp.

I've cracked now, I think. The tables are 1) Acute Hospitals Trust and 2) non-acute Hospitals trusts.

Our areas trust ranking is 66th, but we have two acute hospitals in it which aren't named separately.

Our ambulance trust is middle ranking, too.

Thanks everyone who tried to help me

Ours is in the top third. Some departments are excellent, others poor. Waiting times in A & E are really usually long and patients can be stuck outside in an ambulance for hours. It must be so frustrating for the ambulance people as well. When my friends husband was taken ill at home the paramedics who were brilliant advised him not to go to A and E unless desperate as waiting times that day were nine and a half hours.Waiting times for non-urgent appointments like my own are poor but when you actually get seen the staff are superb. I think it has improved from a few years back. some ofnthe problems stem from patients not being able to get appointments withntheir GP so easily treatable conditions get out of hand and they have to resort to A&E. It isnt helped that unfortunately, many people turn up at A&E with trivial complaints. I sometimes think there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians and no one seems to have their finger on the button so a lot of money is wasted on things like maintenance.

Mine’s midway at 66, but I know which hospital in the trust doesn’t perform well.
Complicated cases are generally referred to another trust, which is ranked 26.

I had to ring the ENT Dept at our main hospital today as my husband was referred there but we had heard nothing. They told me they have a wait time for an outpatients dept of 55 weeks!

Not good down in the south west unfortunately. Very poor rating.

My local NHS hospital was opened in 1980, but just 45 years later it's a patchwork mish-mash of added on shoddy Portakabins.

I don't want to know where it is in the League Table - it might terrify me.

I just wonder, if there is good practice in some hospitals and some GP practices which is apparent from replies on this thread and others on the health forum, why is this the case?
It certainly seems that it isn’t just down to it being ‘the NHS’, so if it is down to better management surely those running successful NHS trusts should be sharing their expertise with those at the bottom of the league table, and incompetent managers
should be retrained or leave. We had a school locally that was failing and so the head of a successful school was asked to become a super head for a short time, managing the failing school as well as his own with a team from his school.
Surely this could work with NHS trusts and GP practices.
Otherwise it becomes a lottery for the people of this country, with some doomed to poor NHS care which can result in long term health problems which can be treated successfully elsewhere and potentially dying unnecessarily due to long waiting times and inaccurate diagnosis. Why should some suffer this whereas just over the border in another part of the UK people are getting excellent care.
This disparity has to be addressed.

The aftercare was appalling first my mother and later my husband and I feel they would be alive if it had been better.
I won't go into details as people going into hospital don't need them. Now if I hear of anyone going into that hospital I cross my fingers, they need luck as well as expertise, but all cover for each other, , one nurse my husband had in critical care could not understand our language, dressings were left about, every day I cleaned and did the basics. I was told off for it but carried on. I hope I never go in, the only reason I would is if I was in terrible pain and no option.. I look back on those days and feel guilt about their lack of care.

henetha

Not good down in the south west unfortunately. Very poor rating.

??? I was thinking the South West fared well, two of the large ones - Royal Cornwall and Rotal Devon are in the top third, the former way out in front. Torbay is halfway.
The one DD1 uses in Harlow, Essex is way down in comparison.

I have just said to DH if one of us falls ill, we will be put in a car and driven over the county line, any direction will do…

GrannyGravy, you and I both, I think we have the same hospital trust.

Sadly when my DH got seriously ill we had no choice.

MayBee70

The trust in the NE has ranked really highly ( not surprised: when I stay at my partners the health care is excellent). Wes Streeting is going to use it to improve the service in other parts of the country.

I'm in the NE too and always found the care excellent.

During the pandemic, I developed some really unpleasant symptoms, from calling my G.P to attending hospital for tests etc was all within 8 days. I saw the consultant a week later.
I've remained under the care of one of the largest hospitals in the area. Check ups every 6 months and I have an email / number for the nursing team.
I can't fault them.

Mine is in the middle, which is where it should be, from my experience.
I don't want to derail the thread, but A&E waiting times ( I was there for twelve hours recently) seem negatively impacted by folk whose needs are not emergency care, from my observation.
At a rough estimate, about half seemed to have mental health issues, dementia, emotional needs, a need to sleep off some substance taken, etc.
All of these had to be triaged and met by staff, who could have seen my friend much more quickly if they were not keeping the dementia chap from causing problems and checking the blood pressure from those who had gone to sleep off some kind of bender.
I suspect that many A&E departments under performing in the time scales have a similar story to tell.
I have no solutions to offer, sadly, but do have real sympathy with set targets in this situation.

DH and I have had to attend our local A& E 3 times this year. Two visits involved horrendous waiting times, but what can you do about an NHS which has had its funding cut to the bone for the past 15 years?

Sadly not very high, another reason to stay as fit and healthy as I can.
But within the hospital (MKH) others and I have found Dermatology to be one of the most efficient and reliable. Appointments are forthcoming, no long waiting lists, procedures carried out 7 days a week and although communications could be better they are unfailingly helpful.

DH's experience of our local university hospital would be too low.

My experience would suggest too high

The one my daughters live near is ranked 18. Mine is 31 and I have to say it's been brilliant for both me (breast cancer) and my husband (various internal checks - there isn't an inch of his alimentary canal un-photographed this year!)

Should be the other way around? The trusts with poor rankings obviously need more help and more money? They also need to change those ‘in charge’!

Our hospital is the one that came bottom of the list. I spent 6 weeks there after I had a stroke with no problems whatsoever. The staff were amazing and nothing was too much trouble. DH has been an inpatient several times for a heart condition and an outpatient in Dermatology again with no problems. Yes thee roof is being held up in several places and we are awaiting a new hospital which allegedly should be built in 2030 - something! Having spoken to a nurse at the hospital this morning she confirmed many of the staff are gutted and deflated on reading that the hospital they work so hard in is relegated to the bottom of the list.
Maybe if the Government had built the new hospital that is so badly needed when they originally promised it we would not be in this position

The trouble with ranking by trust and not individual local hospitals is that it does not necessarily give an accurate picture of how the hospital nearest to you is performing.

Aberdeen hospital has the worst rating, I dread of having ever to go there.

Interestingly my mums’s hospital is a three. This is the hospital where she went in with a chest infection and contracted E. coli c diff pneumonia copd sepsis flu and much more. She nearly died. It is disgustingly filthy and the sheets were these blue stretchy things with holes in them which can’t be boil washed like cotton, there were no pillows or blankets. Similar happened to my dad went in for pain management within a week he could hardly walk talk write.
Mum was moved 5 times in 4 weeks. No continuity no one to talk to.
With both parents we removed them to nursing homes as they were about to die.
They didn’t go into hospital to die.

They are both a year later alive . The nursing homes were brilliant at feeding and medicating them . Obviously they are now terminally ill but still functioning . Dad was 98 this year and mum 89.

Our hospitals in Suffolk are a 4. But the service is amazing and they are very clean . We have a brilliant first responder and heli med service. The staff are very caring