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NHS league tables are a wake-up call for trusts
Birmingham Mail
|September 15, 2025
FIGURES SHOW WEST MIDLANDS HEALTH BOARDS ARE AT ROCK BOTTOM
NEW NHS league tables rating hospital trusts across the country show a Birmingham organisation is rock bottom with two more featuring very low down.
The Department of Health and Social Care released what it called “landmark” league tables in a “bid to drive up standards”.
In a table of non-acute trusts - covering organisations offering maintenance or long-term care - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust placed 61st of 61 trusts with a 3.34 rating.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust also ranked poorly, in 55th position with a rating of 2.90.
In the acute hospitals table, for bodies offering short-term treatment, usually in a hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust also featured near the bottom.
It was ranked 128th of 134 trusts with a rating of 2.97.
All three Birmingham trusts were in Segment 4 - the lowest of the rankings “with the first segment representing the best-performing areas and the fourth segment showing the most challenged”.
The best acute trust in the country was Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (rating 1.39) in London.
This story is from the September 15, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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