New national 'NHS league tables' published today

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital has been ranked 27th among all 134 NHS Acute Trusts in new league tables published today as part of the revised NHS National Oversight Framework (NOF).

The league tables form part of a new interactive dashboard under the NOF which has been launched by NHS England as part of its commitment to drive transparency and improvement in NHS performance.

The dashboard provides a view of how NHS trusts are performing in key services including urgent and emergency care, elective services, mental health and more.

For the first time, members of the public and NHS leaders can explore league tables that show how local trusts compare with others across England on both these individual services and at an overall level. NHS England say they know that trusts face different challenges and, by setting out clear data on what is working and where, can help drive improvement across the entire system, rewarding strong performance and supporting challenged trusts to balance the books, increase productivity and deliver better care for their local communities.

Based on their performance each trust has been placed into one of four core segments - segment 1 represents the organisations with the narrowest range of challenges while segment 4 contains those with the broadest. The dashboard shows what segment each trust is in as well as the data that has been used to make this decision.

RJAH has been placed in segment 2. Only one in 5 Trusts (27) are in segments 1 or 2 in this first iteration of the league tables.

Reflecting the need for the NHS to recover financially, any trust in deficit is limited to segment 3, regardless of wider performance.

League table rankings should only be used as a guide to where an organisation roughly sits amongst its peers, rather than a definitive judgement of whether one trust is considered to be “better” than another. Rankings may change significantly each quarter to reflect the overall changes in relative performance across the NHS.

Full details - including the league tables - can be found on the NHS England website.