Worst-performing NHS trusts are in some of the country's most deprived areas

The worst-performing NHS trusts in England serve patients in some of the country’s most deprived neighbourhoods, analysis by The i Paper has found.

Hospital trusts have been “named and shamed” for the first time in a published league table as part of Labour’s promise to reform the “broken” health service.

The tables showed that 107 of England’s 134 acute hospital trusts – 80 per cent – are considered to be failing because they are “off-track” on performance targets or running financial deficits. New Feature

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Some health experts have welcomed the rankings as a promising way for patients to have access to more information, but others warn the table could cause concern among those whose trusts score poorly but lack options to go else