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Focus on NHS services

This section focuses on different types of services that the NHS provides. We’ve brought together information from our national reviews and other assessments of these services. Our aim is to help give you as full a picture as possible.

Some of the pages below contain searchable information about the quality of a particular service at different NHS trusts. When looking at how your local trust scored, please remember that the quality of the service could have changed since we assessed it. Your GP or another healthcare professional should be able to tell you if this is the case.

  • Maternity

    Find out how your local unit performed in our review of NHS maternity services, which included the views of 26,325 women who had recently given birth.

  • Diabetes

    What we found when looking at services for people with diabetes, plus general information for patients and carers.

  • Mental health

    An in-depth look at hospital services for people with acute mental health problems and the experiences of those who use community mental health services.

  • Heart surgery

    Survival rates at cardiac surgery units across the UK, with explanations of different type of heart operations and what to expect afterwards.

  • Services for people with learning difficulties

    How we are helping to improve services for people with learning difficulties, including information about our national audit.

  • Services for children and young people

    Our work to help improve the health, well being, and safety of children and young people.

  • Making care safer

    Find out how well NHS hospitals are managing risks to patients, including healthcare-associated infections.

  • Other topics

    Other areas of healthcare we have assessed, including urgent and emergency care, substance misuse, heart failure services, diagnostic services, management of medicines and admissions.