At the trust we are committed to openness and transparency. We do our work as a board in public. Care Opinion gives everyone chance to tell us how we are doing.
In that spirit, the simplicity and clarity of the new league tables for the NHS are welcome. In one place we will see information about our work, which covers measures of safety, staff experience, finance, and waiting times. We understand that the measures involved will evolve, and of course, as a trust offering over 150 different services, simple measures may not do justice to everything we do.
On the league table that covers April, May and June 2025, the trust is ranked in the top half of NHS providers in England, when compared to our community health and mental health peers, of whom there are 61. We ranked 30th.
Our ranking would be higher without the reliance on £2,400,000 of deficit support funding to balance our finances, as we have done successfully in 2023, 2024 and 2025. National guidance aims to end that funding in 2026 and 2027, and we have plans to end our need for it in line with that guidance. Half-way through this year we are meeting our financial plans.
We are proud of positive results in the league table related to patient feedback on community mental healthcare, as well as access to crisis care. Our value for money index is apparently the best among all our peers, and our underlying deficit reflects incomplete funding of national pay awards. These are a strong basis for further improvement in the months ahead, but we cannot be complacent.
Thank you to partners, peers in our communities, volunteers, students, and staff for everyone’s hard work: we are clear the promises we need to deliver to improve further.
Kathryn Lavery, Trust Chair.
Published: September 11, 2025
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