Kingston ranked among best in country according to NHS tracker

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked among the best NHS hospitals in the country according to a new tracker produced by the BBC.

The new tracker lets the public see how their local hospital is performing against three key NHS waiting time measures: A&E, cancer care and planned operations.

The tracker shows the Kingston Hospital has been performing within the 30 per cent of Trusts for all three measures, and the top 10 per cent for cancer care and planned operations.

It also shows that Kingston has been performing well compared to other trusts, with Kingston seeing 91.7 per cent of A&E patients in less than four hours compared to the national average of 89.7 per cent.

The Trust ranks 11th best in the country for both cancer care and planned operations, beating both the national average and the initial target.

Cancer care is a particular area of excellence for the Trust, consistently being one of the best performing trusts in London for achieving targets and chosen to be part of a pilot to cut the waiting times down further.

The tracker describes Kingston as performing well in a number of other areas too, with dementia care, palliative care and sexual health services being named as areas of ‘outstanding practice’.

It also highlighted that the Trust treats people with kindness, dignity and compassion, and recognises when people need additional support, handles complaints effectively and confidently, and takes into account people’s cultural and religious needs.

Sally Brittain, director of nursing and quality at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Kingston Hospital has achieved strong performance with the key national targets. In particular we are really proud of consistently achieving all the cancer targets and in our ability to treat over 94 per cent of our patients within 18 weeks of their GP referring them.

“Although performance against the for hour A&E standard remains a challenge in light of increasing attendances within our Emergency Department, particularly from older people in our local community, we remain totally focused on providing the highest quality of care to all our patients.”