WHERE does the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust rank in the new NHS trust league tables?

The trust, which provides acute health care services from Torbay Hospital, as well as community health services and adult social care, was ranked 71st out of the 134 trusts in the league table.

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London was ranked number one.

Elsewhere in Devon, the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was ranked 54th.

Trusts are ranked on several metrics, including waiting times, cancer treatment and time spent in A&E.

Every trust will be ranked quarterly against ‘clear and consistent’ standards, the government says.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: ‘We must be honest about the state of the NHS to fix it.

‘Patients and taxpayers have to know how their local NHS services are doing compared to the rest of the country.

‘These league tables will identify where urgent support is needed and allow high-performing areas to share best practices with others, taking the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.

‘Patients know when local services aren’t up to scratch and they want to see an end to the postcode lottery - that’s what this government is doing.

‘We are combining the extra £26 billion investment each year with tough reforms to get value for money, with every pound helping to cut waiting times for patients’.

By summer 2026, the tables will expand to cover integrated care boards - NHS organisations responsible for planning health services for their local population - and wider areas of NHS performance.

NHS leaders will receive extra pay incentives to go into challenged trusts and turn them around; where trusts are persistently failing, senior managers could see their pay docked.

Experience and feedback will be central to where trusts are ranked, giving patients more power to be able to have their say.

There will be a failure regime to bring poor performers up to standard.