What is the ranking of your hospital trust.

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

My experience would suggest too high

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

No idea

I do know my family members all had care and treatment there this past yearb

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?

Lathyrus3

I think it would have been fairer to publish the ratings for separate categories rather than add them altogether for a total rating.

The hospital at the bottom of the “league” has been struggling for years with a building constructed badly from the start and that is now held up with a crisscross of supporting poles.
That doesn’t say anything about the quality of treatment but would inevitably bring it well down the league table.

Papworth, which was near the top of this league, wouldn’t have fared as well twenty years ago when most of its treatments seem to be delivered in a motley collection of huts and mobile units. But the treatment even then was renowned throughout the world.

It’s the detail that matters not the score, I think.

My heart attack was treated at Papworth in the "motley collection of huts and mobile units". There was nothing wrong with the cath lab where I was treated and the staff were superb.

The post-op wards were grim. I was in a six bed ward. Unfortunately, there were only five beds, so one poor patient had to sleep on a trolley. When a patient was discharged, the bed was given to the person on a trolley - until a new patient was admitted, who had to go on the trolley. The day room for patients was delapidated. The TV didn't work, there were holes in the chairs and the whole place looked scruffy and dirty. The sleep clinic was a nightmare - literally!

I'm not surprised QEH in Kings Lynn is bottom of the table. My mother was treated there just before she died in 2017 and it was like navigating a bomb site even then. My sister was treated for breast cancer there, but they didn't even have a machine for follow-up radiotherapy and she had to travel to Cambridge every day.

I don’t need a see a rating as to good/bad my hospital is.
I only know how bad it was for me and 2 friends ( separate families) who have had close relatives die through neglect and wrong diagnosis 🤬

Lathyrus3

I think it would have been fairer to publish the ratings for separate categories rather than add them altogether for a total rating.

The hospital at the bottom of the “league” has been struggling for years with a building constructed badly from the start and that is now held up with a crisscross of supporting poles.
That doesn’t say anything about the quality of treatment but would inevitably bring it well down the league table.

Papworth, which was near the top of this league, wouldn’t have fared as well twenty years ago when most of its treatments seem to be delivered in a motley collection of huts and mobile units. But the treatment even then was renowned throughout the world.

It’s the detail that matters not the score, I think.

That’s true. QE Hospital at King’s Lynn came out worst in the country.

My Mum had 3 weeks in there about 9 years ago after a serious fall. Even then there were props holding up the place.

However, the staff were brilliant and so kind to her. The food was good and they really looked after her. When she left we gave the staff a Thank You card and big box of chocs.

Also there seems to be no accounting for the practice of hospitals transferring difficult cases to other hospitals with specialist medical units, thus affecting the outcomes score, since the sicker the patient, the more likely a poor outcome.