New intensive recovery programme to target NHS trusts in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire
Five NHS trusts with “deep-rooted challenges” - including one East Yorkshire and one in northern Lincolnshire - are to be part of a recovery programme to tackle the “worst services in the country”, according to the Health Secretary.
Wes Streeting said “failure has been tolerated for too long” as he named the first hospital trusts to be placed under the NHS Intensive Recovery programme.
The programme has identified trusts at the bottom of NHS league tables, where patients face the longest waits for care, there are persistent financial problems, and high turnover of staff in leadership positions.
The first trusts facing measures when the programme begins in April include:
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Streeting said: “Right now, a cluster of high-performing trusts are masking some chronic under-performance in other parts of the country.
“In some places, so many years of poor service without improvement is feeding a sense of fatalism.
“This intensive recovery programme will target the worst performing providers, sending in our best leaders or delivering the structural changes necessary to get them back on track.
“No more turning a blind eye to failure.”
Public satisfaction with the NHS dipped to a record low in 2024, with 21% of people satisfied with the health service.