“Football-style” NHS league tables, which rank the best- and worst-performing hospitals and trusts in England, have now arrived despite warnings that they “would not help patients choose where to seek care”, said The Guardian .

The rankings, which list short-term care or acute trusts, non-acute trusts and ambulance trusts separately, are available to the public and will be reassessed every three months.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he hopes league tables will increase transparency and end the postcode lottery in medical treatment, taking “the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS”.

Health experts, on the other hand, have warned that it is “impossible to capture correctly whether any hospital” is “good or bad”. The new system “could prompt patients to avoid seeking help at lowe

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