South London Healthcare NHS Trust: Standards

Mr. Evennett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the performance of South London Healthcare NHS Trust.

Mr. Mike O'Brien
Under the NHS Performance Framework there are four domains against which trusts are assessed; National Standards and Targets, Finance, Quality and Safety and User Experience. Overall, South London Healthcare NHS Trust has been assessed as 'Underperforming' for Quarter 1 of 2009-10. However, for the category National Standards and Targets, which covers key areas of service performance, it is assessed as 'Performing'.