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09
Sept
New NHS league table ranks Harrogate hospital trust
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked for the first time in a new league table system.
The system, devised by NHS England, ranks trusts across England on their performance.
Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, said the league table would help to identify “where urgent support is needed”.
The new system ranks NHS trusts on seven different areas including waiting times for operations, cancer treatment, time spent in A&E and ambulance response times.
They are then ranked based on performance. It is possible that a trust can be marked highly on clinical care, but then marked down for its financial performance.
Trusts are then sorted into four “segments”, the first of which reflects the best performers and the last listing the worst. They are then given an overall score based on the 30 metrics. A lower score denotes a higher-performing trust.
Harrogate hospital trust ranked
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is ranked 35th out of 134 acute hospital trusts.
According to the league table, the trust has an average score of 1.96 and falls into the third segment of trusts.
The performance of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. Data: NHS England.
The trust is ranked high performing for patient safety and access to services, but below average for effectiveness and experience of care and above average for people and workforce.
Meanwhile, health officials have ranked it low performing for finance and productivity — the trust reported a £3.2 million deficit at its last board meeting in July.
Mr Streeting said the move to rank trusts will help patients see which organisations are the best performing.
He said:
We must be honest about the state of the NHS to fix it. Patients and taxpayers have to know how their local NHS services are doing compared to the rest of the country.
These league tables will identify where urgent support is needed and allow high-performing areas to share best practises with others, taking the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.
Trusts in England will be ranked every three months and the top performers given more power over how they spend their money.
Those at the bottom will be will be encouraged to learn from top performers to help them improve on their ranking.
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