05:30PM, Thursday 18 September 2025
NHS trusts serving East Berkshire have been ranked against other healthcare services across England in reintroduced league tables.
In November last year, Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced that NHS England would be assessing the performance of NHS trusts and the first of the new league tables was published last week.
It is the first ranking system of its kind since a star-rating system, introduced under Tony Blair’s government, was scrapped.
The ranked trusts cover those in charge of hospitals, mental health and community care and the ambulance services.
The three tables, which each rank acute, non-acute and ambulance trusts, allow NHS England to decide upon the support individual trusts require to improve.
They show which trusts are in the middle of the pack, those that are low performing and need intervention and the top performers who may be awarded more freedoms.
Each trust is measured for its performance across areas such as elective treatment, urgent and emergency care and ambulance waiting times, cancer treatment, mental health care, and given an organisational delivery score of between one and four.
The trust’s financial performance is also checked and those who are in deficit or are receiving support are limited to an organisational delivery score of no more than three.
This information is then used to put each provider into a segment.
The segments are numbered one to five, with high performing trusts appearing in segment one and low performing trusts in segment four.
Segment five is for the ‘most challenged’ organisations that need the most help to improve.
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, which serves East Berkshire, was ranked under segment four (low performing) with a score of 2.75.
It is ranked eighth out of 10 ambulance trusts across England.
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust was contacted for comment.
Meanwhile, in the acute hospital trust league table, Frimley NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for hospitals such as Wexham Park in Slough and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, ranked at 37 out of 134 trusts, under segment three, with a score of 2.00.
In a statement on its website, Frimley NHS Foundation Trust said it was ‘proud to mark a year of remarkable progress and improvement, as reflected’ in the league tables.
This news follows recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections, including one which saw Wexham Park Hospital rated Outstanding overall.
Lance McCarthy, the trust’s chief executive, said: “Our segment three rating is based on our financial position rather than a reflection of the passion of colleagues and the quality of care we continue to provide.”
Positioned slightly higher is the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, which came in 34th position, under segment three, with a score of 1.95.
The Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and community healthcare services across the area, ranked in third position in the non-acute hospital trust league table, with a score of 1.79, under segment one.
The tables will be updated every three months.
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