NHS health check 2007: Facts and figures

The Healthcare Commission has published its in-depth analysis of the performance of England's 394 NHS trusts across a range of categories over the past year.

Follow the links to see some of the key findings.

Overview

Regional breakdown

Best and worst

OVERVIEW

The commission assessed the trusts on a series of criteria, focusing on their quality of service and use of resources.

Each trust was graded either excellent, good, fair or weak.

The services measure included patient access, safety and the way the services are run.

The ratings reflect how well the organisation met basic standards of care and how it performed against existing and new national targets.

The resources measure gauged financial performance - not just whether it was in debt - and included how it monitors spending and whether it provides value for money.

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The total number of organisations fell from 570 last year.

More than half of mental health trusts received a score of excellent for quality of services, and 55% received a score of excellent or good for use of resources.

The performance of Primary Care Trusts was the poorest for the second year running.

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REGIONAL BREAKDOWN

There are four Healthcare Commission regions: Central, London and South East, South West and North.

The Central region performed best for quality of services, with 21% of trusts scoring excellent, and a further 29% scoring good.

The South West region performed least well, with only 19% of trusts scoring good, and 16% scoring weak.

In terms of use of resources, the North region performed best, with 46% of trusts scoring excellent or good and 16% scoring weak.

London and South East performed least well with 34% of trusts scoring weak, and only 10% scoring excellent.

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The Central region fares well in the new-style assessment, with the highest percentage of organisations achieving an excellent or good ranking for quality of services, and the lowest percentage of weak rankings.

The South West has the highest percentage of organisations ranked weak.

On use of resources, the North region, which has the largest number of high-performing foundation trusts, fares best.

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BEST AND WORST

Last year, only two organisations scored Excellent for both quality of services and use of resources. This year 19 achieved excellence in both categories, including the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust for the second year running.

HIGH PERFORMERS

Trusts achieving excellence for quality of services and use of resources

Trust	Type	Quality of Services	Use of Resources
Basingstoke and North Hampshire	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Birmingham Children's Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Calderdale and Huddersfield	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Cambridge University Hospitals	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Chesterfield Royal Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Frimley Park Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Guy's and St Thomas'	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Heart of England	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Liverpool Womens Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Papworth Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Queen Victoria Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Salford Royal	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Sheffield Children's	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
The Royal Marsden	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
Yeovil District Hospital	Acute	Excellent	Excellent
South Essex Partnership	Mental Health	Excellent	Excellent
South Staffordshire Healthcare	Mental Health	Excellent	Excellent
Source: Healthcare Commission

A total of 20 trusts scored weak in both sectors, compared to 24 last year. Four of the 20 scored weak for both for the second year running: Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

POOR PERFORMERS

Trusts scoring weak for quality of services and use of resources

Trust	Type	Quality of Services	Use of Resources
Great Western Ambulance Service	Ambulance	Weak	Weak
Yorkshire Ambulance Service	Ambulance	Weak	Weak
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells	Acute	Weak	Weak
Northern Devon	Acute	Weak	Weak
Royal Cornwall Hospitals	Acute	Weak	Weak
Royal United Hospital Bath	Acute	Weak	Weak
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire	Acute	Weak	Weak
Surrey and Sussex	Acute	Weak	Weak
West Hertfordshire Hospitals	Acute	Weak	Weak
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals	Acute	Weak	Weak
Cumbria	PCT	Weak	Weak
Devon	PCT	Weak	Weak
East and North Hertfordshire	PCT	Weak	Weak
Leicestershire County And Rutland	PCT	Weak	Weak
Luton Teaching	PCT	Weak	Weak
Mid Essex	PCT	Weak	Weak
Sheffield	PCT	Weak	Weak
Surrey	PCT	Weak	Weak
West Hertfordshire	PCT	Weak	Weak
Wiltshire	PCT	Weak	Weak
Source: Healthcare Commission

PCT = Primary Care Trust

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