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Imperial College Healthcare is in the top performing group of acute NHS trusts in new NHS league tables published today by the Department of Health and Social Care. 

The Trust – which provides care from Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea, St Mary’s and Western Eye hospitals – is ranked 11th out of 134 acute trusts in England for its performance in the first quarter of 2025/26 (April to June 2025). With the top eight places taken by single specialty acute trusts, Imperial College Healthcare is third amongst all non-specialist acute trusts and second out of 49 teaching trusts nationally. 

The new league tables score each NHS trust quarterly for their performance against metrics in the new ‘NHS Oversight Framework’, which reflect the delivery of NHS priorities, including reducing waiting times, ensuring patient safety, improving patient and staff experience and staying within budget. Each trust is ranked by their average score across these metrics and placed in one of four equal groups. Top-performing trusts are to be rewarded with greater autonomy, including the ability to reinvest surplus budgets into frontline improvements such as new diagnostic equipment and hospital upgrades.

Professor Tim Orchard, Chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: “Our ranking reflects the huge progress made by our staff, in partnership with patients, local communities and other health and care organisations. As a large teaching trust, we have a long track record in advancing clinical practice and safety, but we haven’t always matched that with effective operational and financial performance.  I am very proud of how our staff are increasingly working as one team, with shared values and aspirations, and to see that now translating into improvements in all aspects of our work."

Access the NHS trust performance league tables process and results here.