Trust ranks high up in new NHS performance ratings
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) has been rated positively in a new performance league table published today, ranking as the second highest performing Trust across West Yorkshire and 15th out of 61 mental health and community trusts across England.
NHS England has published the 2025/26 NHS Oversight Framework which sets out a revised approach to assessing integrated care boards (ICBs), NHS trusts and foundation trusts for 2025/26. Its goals are to enhance public accountability for performance and improve the identification of providers that require support to improve.
It has been developed with the engagement and contributions from the NHS leadership and staff, representative bodies and think tanks, including through two public consultations.
All 205 NHS Trusts have been placed in a segment between 1 (high performing) and 4 (low performing). Entry into a segment 5 will be reserved for the most challenged organisations that require the most support to improve. LYPFT has been placed in segment 2, indicating that the “organisation has good performance across most domains” but “specific issues exist”.
Dr Sara Munro, (pictured) LYPFT’s Chief Executive, said:
“We are pleased to be placed in segment 2 of the 2025/26 NHS Oversight Framework. This reflects good performance across most domains, while acknowledging there are specific areas we continue to improve.
“Our Trust has been recognised for strong community mental health care experiences and effective crisis team responses, alongside high productivity and value for money.
“At the same time, we are actively addressing challenges in sickness absence, and timely discharges from inpatient wards. The NHS Oversight Framework provides a transparent way to understand our performance, and we remain committed to improving outcomes for both our service users and staff.”
Our score has been calculated based on performance against agreed metrics across six domains:
- Access to services
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- elective care
- cancer care
- urgent and emergency care
- mental health care
2. Effectiveness and experience of care
3. Patient safety
4. People and workforce
5. Finance and productivity
6. Improving health and reducing inequality (a non-scoring domain)
- improving population health
- primary prevention
- inequalities
You can see a detailed explanation of the methodology used to score organisations on the NHS England website.
Examples of our performance in each of the five scored domains
NHS England has provided data setting out how LYPFT has performed in each of the five scored domains.
Access to services
We scored highly in this domain mainly due to the growth we’ve seen in access to our Deaf CAMHS service. Improving access to children and young people’s (CYP) mental health services is one of the NHS National Priorities for 2025/26.
Effectiveness and experience of care
We scored well for the overall experience of our Trust taken from the National CQC community mental health survey. Each year we are required by the CQC (Care Quality Commission) to ask people who have been supported by LYPFT community services, what they think about the care and support they have been provided with.
We have been highlighted for under performance for the percentage of adults discharged from our inpatient wards with a length of stay above 60 days. This is something we’ve been working intensively on with our system partners over the last two years.
In the last few months there has been a reduction in delayed bed days overall. However, delays persist for individuals who are clinically ready for discharge. These delays are predominantly due to the limited availability of appropriate accommodation, particularly supported housing that is suitably equipped to meet the needs of our service users.
We are taking a range of actions to address this including:
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- Working with adult social care and third sector providers to reduce the voids in the Transitional Housing Units and supported accommodation,
- Working with community teams to support and facilitate early discharge from hospital,
- Increasing the frequency of complex case meetings to identify and resolve discharge barriers,
- Recruiting Housing Officers to work directly with our clinical teams in identifying housing barriers and supporting discharges, and
- Using our inpatient capacity more effectively including greater flexibility in admission criteria during periods of heightened pressure, allowing for the identification of alternative, needs-based provision.
Patient safety
Responses from LYPFT colleagues to the NHS National Staff Survey, specifically in the “Raising concerns” category, indicated we are performing slightly better than average, reflecting our work towards ensuring that everyone feels safe and confident when expressing their views.
We’ve received a good score for our crisis care teams providing a face-to-face assessment for urgent referrals within 24 hours. The latest data reported to our public Trust Board (for May and June 2025) shows we’ve consistently achieved above 80%.
People and workforce
Our sickness absence levels are off-track in the people and workforce domain. We’re working hard to improve staff sickness levels year on year and continue to work towards the commitments set out in our People Plan to ensure our people are safe, healthy, and well both physically and psychologically. Our priorities for this year include reducing sickness absence by 1% focusing on reductions in stress and musculo-skeletal related absence.
NHS National Staff Survey engagement scores indicate that this is a positive area, with results suggesting colleagues feel motivated, involved, and proud in their roles – in line with the average across the NHS.
Finance and productivity
The Trust has been rated highly for productivity and value for money. We have robust finance and efficiency programmes in place that are being managed carefully by our Chief Financial Officer and her team.
The performance of those efficiency programmes is reported to the Trust’s public Board meetings every two months. At the Trust Board meeting in July 2025, it was reported that the Trust is on plan to achieve a break-even position at the end of the financial year.
How to delve into the data
To support transparency, NHS England has published a dashboard to give the public access to the data that underpins segmentation.
Each provider’s scores and segmentation are shown alongside the individual metric scores used to calculate them.
Access the NHS oversight framework segmentation and performance dashboard
The framework will be reviewed in 2026/27 to incorporate work to implement the ICB operating model and to take account of the ambitions and priorities in the 10 Year Health Plan.
Page last updated: 9th Sep 2025 5:21pm