The best and worst NHS Trusts - where does Milton Keynes rank?
National Health Service trusts across the country have been ranked in new league tables, released by the Department for Health and Social Care.
The tables rank trusts into four different segments.
The first segment represents the best performing areas, down to the fourth, which is the most challenged.
Specialist hospitals dominate the top end of the rankings, with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, based in London, top with a score of 1.39.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, based at King’s Lynn in Norfolk, is ranked in 134th and last place with a score of 3.35.
Milton Keynes has been placed in the third segment, and is rated in 73rd, with a score of 2.42 points.
Trusts ranked between 28th and 101st are in the third segment, putting Milton Keynes in the bottom half of this bracket.
Trusts are scored across seven different areas including waiting times for operations, cancer treatment, time spent in accident and emergency and ambulance response times.
Finances are also assessed, and any trust that is experiencing financial difficulties cannot be ranked in a segment higher than three, even if they have a good standard of patient care.
Speaking about the rankings NHS England said: "Patients will get better care and value from record investment in the NHS thanks to a pioneering new system of league tables being rolled out across England today.
"This will help end the postcode lottery in care, ensuring patients receive timely, high-quality treatment wherever they live.
"Patient feedback will also play a central role in how trusts are ranked, giving people a stronger voice in shaping their care."
NHS England added that trusts in the middle segment "will be encouraged to learn from top performers to help them improve on their rankings, so they too will be able to financially benefit from their budget surpluses in the future."
The full table can be accessed through the NHS England website.
A separate NHS Ambulance Trust league table was also published, with South Central Ambulance Service ranked in eighth place in the standings.
The service, which covers the Thames Valley including Buckinghamshire, was ranked in the fourth segment and had a score of 2.75.
It was one of three ambulance services across the country in the bottom segment.