How Good is the NHS Hospital Near You? - New League Table (Worst and Best)

How Good is the NHS Hospital Near You? – New League Table (Worst and Best)

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A hospital sign in London, giving directions towards the emergency department.

Today, 9th September 2025, the government has published its new list of the best and worst performing NHS hospital trusts in England.

League tables ranking the best and worst hospitals in England are not what is needed by patients, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned.

The list, published for the first time by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), rates the performance of NHS trusts across the country, as part of what it says is an effort to raise standards.

But Dr Tom Dolphin, chair of the BMA (doctors’ union), said “Patients don’t need league tables to tell them where the NHS is struggling: they see it every day with their own eyes.”

The majority of the top 10 best-performing hospitals were specialist trusts, with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London at number one, followed by the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a single site cancer centre in Manchester, and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.

The worst performer among these acute trusts, in 134th place, was Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, which is being propped up by thousands of metal poles because of problems with its ceilings.


1	Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.39
2	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.48
3	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.51
4	Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.52
5	Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.55
6	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.56
7	The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.57
8	The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.70
9	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Large	1.74
10	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Teaching	1.81
11	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Acute – Teaching	1.82
12	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Acute – Large	1.87
13	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Teaching	1.93
14	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Specialist	1.97

The Worst


127	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Teaching	2.97
127	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Teaching	2.97
129	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Teaching	2.98
130	Medway NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Medium	2.99
130	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Medium	2.99
132	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	Acute – Teaching	3.01
133	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Small	3.04
134	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	Acute – Small	3.35