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Hospital Trusts (Essex)

Since the House rose for the summer recess, I have received extensive cardiac treatment at Lewisham hospital and a bypass operation at King's College hospital in September. The service that I received throughout that period, and which I continue to receive, has been exemplary. As a beneficiary of the services of the NHS, I cannot speak highly enough of the services in south-east London, which brings me to the Dr. Foster analysis. When I was at University Hospital Lewisham just this morning, as part of my rehabilitation programme, I took the opportunity to speak to the chief executive and the chairman of the trust. They are at some loss to understand how on the basis of the same data, both the Care Quality Commission and CHKS, the leading independent-sector supplier of health intelligence, managed to find it good, with CHKS putting it in the top 40 performing hospitals in the— ...What action can my right hon. Friend take to ensure that people are not given conflicting information on the basis of the same data, which serves only to undermine the NHS and the people who work in it?