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About the Acute Provider table

This data tool provides a summary of provider performance across key statistics and is part of our commitment to becoming a far more transparent system.

It draws on data published as part of the NHS monthly operational statistics and will be updated regularly in line with their publication.

The Acute Provider table displays seven health statistics in a simple and accessible way for English NHS providers that deliver acute services. The table includes statistics from four acute service areas: Accident and Emergency (A&E) waiting times, elective referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, cancer diagnosis and treatment waiting times, and diagnostic waiting times.

Using the Acute Provider table

Users of the Acute Provider table can find the latest performance and the rank order for each of the statistics. The table can be sorted by the latest rank for each of the seven statistics. A rank of 1 indicates the Acute Provider with the best performance in that statistic, whereas a rank higher than 100 indicates the acute provider has a relatively poor performance in that statistic.

The data can also be downloaded from the NHS England statistics page.

Further information about each of the seven statistics can be found in the Statistics documentation section, as well as links to the published data to find out more information about data quality.

Methodology

  • Rankings are calculated using latest submissions across NHS acute providers.
  • Statistics are sorted to show rank out of total reporting units (e.g. 134 NHS Acute Providers).

Rankings

Not all providers are ranked for every metric. The number of ranked providers varies by metric:

  • Some providers don't receive rankings due to their specialist services.
  • Data is not available for this provider and metric.
  • The provider has not submitted data for this reporting period.

Cancer Rankings exclude those providers which are either cancer specialist treatment centres or single speciality trusts given these have unique case-mixes when compared to other trusts.

A&E 12 hours performance is only reported for activity within a type 1 or type 2 ED. Where providers have not submitted ECDS that meets the predefined data quality criteria their performance is not reported and therefore will not have a rank.

This means while there are 134 total acute providers, the number of ranked providers varies (e.g., 117 for elective 18-week waits, 123 for A&E 4-hour performance).

Statistics documentation

A&E 12 hour performance

This metric reflects the proportion of patients who waited over 12 hours from arrival, to admission, transfer or discharge, for type 1 and 2 A&E departments only.

Data source: Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) See the Supplementary ECDS Analysis files.
Published link: View published data

A&E 4 hour performance

This metric reflects the proportion of patients who waited less than 4 hours from arrival, to admission, transfer or discharge.

Data source: Monthly A&E data collection
Published link: View published data

Cancer 62 Day Combined Performance

The standard reflects the proportion of patients who waited two months (62-days) from an urgent suspected cancer or breast symptomatic referral, or urgent screening referral, or consultant upgrade to a first definitive treatment for cancer.

Data source: Cancer Waiting Times Collection
Published link: View published data

Cancer Faster Diagnosis Standard

The standard reflects the proportion of patients who waited four weeks (28-days) from urgent referral to being told they have cancer, or cancer is definitively excluded.

Data source: Cancer Waiting Times Collection
Published link: View published data

Diagnostics proportion waiting over 6 weeks

The purpose of this dataset is to measure waits and monitor activity for 15 key diagnostic tests. Early diagnosis is important to patients and central to improving outcomes.

Data source: Monthly Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity Return (DM01)
Published link: View published data

Percentage waiting more than 52 weeks for elective treatment

This metric measures the percentage of cases where the patient was waiting to start consultant-led elective treatment and had been waiting more than 52 weeks (one year).

Data source: Monthly RTT data collection
Published link: View published data

Percentage waiting within 18 weeks for elective treatment

This metric measures the percentage of cases where the patient was waiting to start consultant-led elective treatment and had been waiting within 18 weeks.

Data source: Monthly RTT data collection
Published link: View published data