How to read these charts
Against the national standards
Each measure is drawn against its own NHS England standard: 95% for A&E within four hours, 85% for urgent cancer treatment within sixty-two days and 99% for diagnostic tests within six weeks. The charts do not share a standard and the three cancer measures are never added together.
Care Quality Commission
What CQC currently says
CQC has not given Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust an overall rating. Under its single assessment framework it rates services and key questions rather than awarding one judgement for the whole body, so these are what it currently publishes. They are separate judgements and CQC does not add them together.
Services CQC has rated
Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community dental services
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community end of life care
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community health inpatient services
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community health services for adults
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community health services for children, young people and families
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community mental health services with learning disabilities or autism
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community-based mental health services for adults of working age
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Community-based mental health services for older people
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Mental health crisis services and health-based places of safety
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Specialist community mental health services for children and young people
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Wards for older people with mental health problems
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Wards for people with a learning disability or autism
- Caring
- Effective
- Responsive
- Safe
- Well-led
Monthly performance against national standards
Hover or use the arrow keys to read any month, with the figures the percentage was worked out from. Every chart opens as a table.
A&E Wait Times
Patients seen within four hours
Not reported by this body.
Waiting times (RTT)
Referral to treatment: waiting under eighteen weeks to start treatment
97.0%
July 2026: 97.0 per cent, 32 of 33 people waiting. Meets the 92% standard.
All 14 months as a table
| Month | Performance | Of people waiting |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 97.0%, Meets the 92% standard | 32 of 33 |
| Jun 2026 | 96.8%, Meets the 92% standard | 30 of 31 |
| May 2026 | 100.0%, Meets the 92% standard | 22 of 22 |
| Apr 2026 | 90.3%, Below the 92% standard | 28 of 31 |
| Mar 2026 | 90.0%, Below the 92% standard | 36 of 40 |
| Feb 2026 | 72.1%, Below the 92% standard | 31 of 43 |
| Jan 2026 | 77.4%, Below the 92% standard | 41 of 53 |
| Dec 2025 | 83.1%, Below the 92% standard | 59 of 71 |
| Nov 2025 | 76.8%, Below the 92% standard | 63 of 82 |
| Oct 2025 | 76.7%, Below the 92% standard | 69 of 90 |
| Sept 2025 | 83.5%, Below the 92% standard | 76 of 91 |
| Aug 2025 | 90.7%, Below the 92% standard | 98 of 108 |
| Jul 2025 | 94.2%, Meets the 92% standard | 97 of 103 |
| Jun 2025 | 97.5%, Meets the 92% standard | 116 of 119 |
Diagnostic tests (DM01)
Waiting under six weeks for a scan, a scope or a test
Not reported by this body.
Cancer diagnosis (FDS)
Faster diagnosis standard: told the outcome within twenty-eight days
100.0%
One month held, so there is no line to draw yet. NHS England monthly cancer waiting times.
Cancer (31-day)
Decision to treat to first treatment within thirty-one days
Not reported by this body.
Cancer (62-day)
Urgent referral to first treatment within sixty-two days
Not reported by this body.
4 measures are marked as not reported. NHS England publishes each of these against the providers that deliver the service, so an absence is usually the kind of body rather than a figure we have failed to collect.