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Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Lincoln, LN5 7JH · Compare with another trust

At a glance

Whether this trust meets each official NHS operational standard — not a combined score or ranking.

Waiting times
No data
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A&E
Meets NHS standard
97.9% within 4 hours · standard 95% · About this data
Cancer
No data
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Diagnostics
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Mortality (SHMI)
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In plain English

AI-generated

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust reported 9,426 A&E attendances in July 2026. Of these patients, 97.9% were dealt with within four hours, and zero waited over 12 hours after a decision to admit. Additionally, 66.5% of staff in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated there.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 20 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

Hospitals run by this trust

Trust performance

A&E patients seen within 4 hours
97.9%
National median: 74.2%
1.2 pts vs yr agoBetter than 95% of trustsData: Jul 2026
A&E attendances
9,426
National median: 14,642
307 vs yr agoData: Jul 2026
12-hour trolley waits
0
National median: 194
Better than 81% of trustsData: Jul 2026

A&E performance

Latest month: July 2026· all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.

A&E attendances
9,426
All department types · latest month
Seen within 4 hours
97.9%
All department types · NHS standard: 95%
Waited over 12 hours
0
From decision-to-admit ('trolley waits')
Emergency admissions
0
All department types · latest month

This trust does not run a separate major (Type 1) A&E department — the figures above are for its minor-injury unit(s) or urgent treatment centre(s) — Type 3 in NHS England’s classification.

Department typeAttendancesWithin 4 hours
All types (official headline)9,42697.9%
Type 3 — minor injury / UTC9,42697.9%

Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. About this data

Staff experience (NHS Staff Survey)

2025 · the views of staff who work at this trust — a measure of workforce culture, morale and confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes. There is no official NHS target for these figures, so they are shown as context, never a pass or fail.

Staff happy for a friend or relative to be treated here
66.5%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 8.3 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
6.75
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
55.4%
Agreed · 2025

The NHS Staff Survey records the views of staff who chose to respond — a measure of workforce culture, morale and staff confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes or safety. Response rates vary between trusts. England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate staff surveys on a different basis, so these figures are never compared across nations.

Source: NHS Staff Survey (NHS England), Open Government Licence. About this data

Bed occupancy, ambulance handovers & delayed discharges (UEC Daily SitRep)

Snapshot at 8am, 29 March 2026. This is unvalidated management information— NHS England's own label — and can be revised for up to 14 days after first publication. It is collected only during the winter Daily SitRep window, so this is the latest date the collection has published, not necessarily today. It measures operational pressure (how full the hospital is), NOT care quality — high occupancy is normal for NHS hospitals, especially in winter, and is not a safety or performance score. The ambulance-handover figures below cover winter 2025-26 as a period total(not a snapshot): the time from an ambulance arriving to the patient being handed over to A&E staff. The delayed-discharge figures cover the most recent 7 daysof the collection (not a snapshot, and not the whole winter): a patient who "no longer meets the criteria to reside" is medically ready to leave hospital, but how quickly they actually do mostly reflects social-care and community capacity to receive them — NOT the hospital's own clinical quality. A higher handover or delayed-discharge figure means more operational pressure — like the rest of this section, none of it is a measure of care quality, and it carries no colour grading, badge or ranking.

Ambulance handovers over 30 minutes
21.9%
of 73 handovers, winter 2025-26
Ambulance handovers over 60 minutes
2.7%
of 73 handovers, winter 2025-26

Source: NHS England UEC Daily SitRep, Ambulance Handover and Acute Discharge SitRep collections. About this data

Stroke care (SSNAP audit)

Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme, latest quarter to 2026· the SSNAP level (A best .. E) is the audit's own published grade for the quality of this team's acute stroke-care PROCESSES, adjusted for case-mix, case ascertainment and audit compliance — it is not a guarantee of any individual patient's outcome. England only; SSNAP also covers Wales and Northern Ireland.

Lincolnshire Community Hospitals
E30.4/100
East Midlands
Domain grades (patient-centred)
Specialist pathwayE
Therapy intensityE
Therapy frequencyE
Standards by dischargeE
Case ascertainment AAudit compliance E

This team's case ascertainment and/or audit compliance band is D or E — its SSNAP grade above rests on less-complete data than a team with a higher band, not necessarily worse care.

Source: Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (Royal College of Physicians). About this data

Figures come from NHS England's official monthly statistics and the CQC directory, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See methodology for definitions.