Methodology

Waiting-list size, % within 18 weeks, median wait and 52-week-plus counts, per trust and specialty.

Updated: Monthly (published ~6 weeks after the period, on the 2nd Thursday)

Attendances, 4-hour performance and 12-hour decision-to-admit waits per trust.

Updated: Monthly

The regulator's register of hospital locations and each location's latest overall inspection rating.

Updated: Monthly directory file

The canonical register of NHS trusts and hospital sites, used to link everything together.

Updated: Continuous

MRSA, C. difficile, E. coli and other bloodstream-infection case counts per trust, by onset type.

Updated: Monthly

Whether a trust's deaths are higher, as, or lower than expected — a screening tool, not a death rate.

Updated: Monthly

Patient-assessed cleanliness, food, condition and privacy scores per hospital site.

Updated: Annual

% waiting 6+ weeks for MRI, CT, ultrasound, endoscopy and other tests, per trust.

Updated: Monthly

Faster-diagnosis, 62-day and 31-day cancer standards per trust.

Updated: Monthly

The England-wide waiting-list total each week, with age/sex/band splits — a weekly-granular national series alongside the monthly RTT data.

Updated: Weekly

A&E attendances and 4-hour performance per Scottish hospital — measured separately from England.

Updated: Monthly

Outpatient and inpatient waiting lists per Scottish health board, against the 12-week standard.

Updated: Monthly

62-day and 31-day cancer standards per Scottish health board of treatment.

Updated: Quarterly

Share of the diagnostic waiting list over 6 weeks per Scottish health board.

Updated: Monthly

Pathways waiting, % within 26 weeks, and median/90th-centile wait per Welsh health board — measured separately from England and Scotland.

Updated: Monthly

A&E attendances and 4-hour performance per Welsh health board, with a Major Emergency Departments-only figure alongside the all-facilities rate.

Updated: Monthly

Patients starting cancer treatment and the share within 62 days (Single Cancer Pathway, 75% target) per Welsh health board.

Updated: Monthly

Diagnostic pathways waiting and the share over 8 weeks per Welsh health board — Wales's own 8-week standard, not England's or Scotland's 6-week standard.

Updated: Monthly

Red-call (immediately life-threatening) 999 volumes and median/90th-centile response times per Welsh health board — shown against Wales's 65%-within-8-minute standard, since the % figure itself isn't published.

Updated: Monthly

The share of respondents who'd recommend inpatient or A&E care, plus response counts and rate, per trust. Voluntary and self-selected — read alongside the clinical measures.

Updated: Monthly

Category 1-4 mean and 90th-centile ambulance response times per ambulance service and for England — a regional dataset, measured separately from hospital A&E.

Updated: Monthly

Whether staff would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated at their trust, plus staff engagement and 'recommend as a place to work' — England only. A workforce-culture signal with no official target, shown as context and never ranked.

Updated: Annual

Last-minute cancellations of planned operations for non-clinical reasons, and how many patients weren't rebooked within 28 days, per trust.

Updated: Quarterly

The number of rare, serious, wholly-preventable safety incidents reported per trust. A raw count, not a ranking — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Response rate plus a curated set of headline questions across the maternity journey, scored out of 10 with a banding against other trusts. Scores are RELATIVE comparisons, not an absolute measure — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Response rate plus a curated set of headline questions spanning the inpatient stay, scored out of 10 alongside the national average. "Better"/"worse" reflects a 95%-confidence-interval significance test, not a raw ranking — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Response rate plus a curated set of headline questions spanning an A&E attendance, scored out of 10 alongside the national average. "Better"/"worse" reflects a 95%-confidence-interval significance test, not a raw ranking — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Response rate plus an overall 0-10 rating and a curated set of headline questions spanning the cancer pathway, shown as % giving the most positive answer alongside the national average. "Better"/"worse" reflects a 95%-expected-range significance test, not a raw ranking — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Case-mix-adjusted average health gain after primary hip or knee replacement (Oxford Score + EQ-5D Index), plus patient numbers and % improved. A voluntary survey, not a ranking — read the caveat before comparing trusts.

Updated: Annual

Adult general & acute and adult critical-care bed occupancy per trust, 8am snapshot, plus ambulance-to-A&E handover delays as a winter-period total. Unvalidated management information, revisable for 14 days — a pressure signal, not a quality score.

Updated: Daily (winter collection window)

Patients waiting for a first outpatient appointment, for inpatient or day-case admission, and for a diagnostic test — with the share over 52 weeks, per HSC Trust. Measured separately from England, Scotland and Wales, and never ranked against them.

Updated: Quarterly

The share of patients whose first cancer treatment began within 31 days of the decision to treat (NI target 98%), per HSC Trust — a later-stage measure, shown separately from the other nations and never ranked against them.

Updated: Quarterly

Per-hospital parking charges, catering cost, single rooms and maintenance backlog.

Updated: Annual

The 'In plain English' box: a short plain-English restatement of the official figures already on the page, produced by a self-hosted open-weights model and automatically checked so every number matches those figures. No new data, no comparisons, not medical advice.

Updated: Derived (regenerated when figures change)

The audit's own published, case-mix-adjusted SSNAP grade (A best .. E) for the quality of a stroke team's acute-care processes, its 7 domain-level grades, and its data-quality (case ascertainment / audit compliance) bands. England only; SSNAP also covers Wales and Northern Ireland. See /stroke for the full ranking.

Updated: Quarterly

The audit's own published 'met best-practice criteria' composite for a hospital's hip-fracture care processes, the individual process measures behind it, case volume, acute length of stay, and case-mix-adjusted 30-day mortality. England only; NHFD also covers Wales. See /hip-fracture for the full ranking.

Updated: Annual