Twelve NHS hospital trusts in England are “significantly underperforming”, a report says, despite eight recently having been rated as good or excellent.
The report by monitoring body Dr Foster also said 27 trusts had unusually high death rates.
But the Care Quality Commission, which has issued its official ratings within the past month, said it saw no need to step in at the moment.
The part-private, part-NHS Dr Foster Hospital Guide rates hospital trusts from one to five based on analysis of a range of “safety indicators”, including errors in surgery, deaths, infection rates and staffing levels.
In this year’s report 12 received the lowest score.
They include University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; Weston Area Health Trust; South London Healthcare Trust; Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust; University Hospital of South Manchester and St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust.
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust; Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals Foundation Trust; and Hereford Hospitals Trust are also among the 12, which are completed by Basildon and Thurrock; Lewisham; and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire.
Of these St Helens and Knowsley was rated excellent by the CQC and three others - Mid Yorkshire, Weston Area and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire - were rated fair, with seven of the remainder achieving good ratings.
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