UK NHS Trusts, Health Boards and Hospital Groups

uk-nhs

The NHS trusts of England, the health boards and trusts of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the independent hospital groups.

Index 12.1 · scanned 2026-11-02 · up to 32 URLs per site · 306 organizations · 223 scanned (72.9% coverage) · 27 with no published URL · scored as healthcare

Median score 61 across 223 sites

Middle half 55–67 spread around the median

Full range 33–77 lowest to highest

Gated 74 of 223 block AI crawlers outright

Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.

Where this list came from

The source, and how we filtered it

Source	NHS trusts, health boards and independent hospital providers, NHS England (Organisation Data Service); Care Quality Commission; Wikidata (2026-11-02 (ODS, read live); CQC care directory 2026-10-28)
License	ODS data and the CQC care directory: Open Government Licence v3.0. Wikidata: CC0 1.0.
Cite as	Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How we filtered it	The ODS ORD API: every active organization with primary role RO197 (NHS trust), excluding records with a legal end date (ODS keeps dissolved trusts active); foundation-trust where RO57 is active. Every active RO142 (Welsh local health board), RO190 (Scottish health board) and RO154 (Northern Ireland HSC trust), and NHS Scotland's eight national boards, named in the script. One row per CQC provider with at least one location of service type 'Hospital' whose name does not contain 'NHS'. Addresses: the trust's own ODS web contact; for an independent provider, the website most of its CQC hospital locations give, cut to the root; otherwise Wikidata P856, matched on the name within Wikidata's class for that kind of body.
Instead of	The NHS.UK Service Search API, which needs a subscription key.
Built	2026-11-02

The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.

Distribution

Where the 223 sites land

Grade	Sites	Share
Weak	90	40.4%
Adequate	124	55.6%
Not ready	6	2.7%
Strong	3	1.3%

By dimension

What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension

The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.

Dimension	Mean share earned	Mean
#1 · Reach These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information.		79%
#2 · Read AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it?		59%
#3 · Understand Does a machine know who and what you are?		27%
#4 · Act Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget.		79%

How much of each site we read

The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.

9 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.

Where this cohort fails

11 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes

Universal — nobody passes these 11 checks · 3 of them worth 2 points or more

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of	Points
EXT-11	Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question?	100.0%	223	0
EXT-12	Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes?	100.0%	223	0
EXT-14	Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools?	100.0%	217	0
EXT-16	Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run?	100.0%	223	0
EXT-17	Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records?	100.0%	222	0
EXT-18	Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay?	100.0%	1	0
EXT-2	Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them?	100.0%	21	0
EXT-7	If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such?	100.0%	3	0
RED-10	Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages?	100.0%	192	2
RED-12	If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it?	100.0%	223	2
UND-3	Do the prices and availability in your page code match what the page shows?	100.0%	1	3

Near-universal — 95% and above 5 checks · 2 of them worth 2 points or more

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of	Points
PST-2	Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content?	99.6%	223	0
UND-5	Does the author label in your page code point to that person?	99.5%	192	1
UND-2	Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish?	99.1%	223	3
EXT-1	Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants?	98.7%	223	0
UND-1	Does your site say clearly who you are?	97.8%	223	2

Common — 90 to 95% 4 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of	Points
UND-10	Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere?	91.5%	223	2
EXT-13	Can an assistant ask your site a question directly?	90.6%	223	0
PST-4	Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read?	90.6%	223	0
EXT-4	Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool?	90.1%	223	0

Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.

Every site

Every 306, named, with a report for each

Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.

Showing 301–306 of 306 · page 4 of 4

Site	Score	Gated	Pages read
The Weymouth Clinic Limited bmihealthcare.co.ukblockedregister id 1-116865945; address from CQC care directory (location websites) (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the provider's one hospital location gives this site; cut to the site root; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare)	—	No	—
Three Shires Hospital LLP circlehealthgroup.co.ukblockedregister id 1-2021432317; address from CQC care directory (location websites) (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the provider's one hospital location gives this site; cut to the site root; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare)	—	No	—
TPC Group Limited no website on recordregister id 1-16471837171; the CQC directory gives no website for any of this provider's hospital locations	—	No	—
Transform Healthcare Limited no website on recordregister id 1-14142727285; the CQC directory gives no website for any of this provider's hospital locations	—	No	—
Trustees of The London Clinic Limited thelondonclinic.co.ukregister id 1-101728696; address from CQC care directory (location websites) (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the provider's one hospital location gives this site	67	No	32
Welbeck Healthcare Limited londonwelbeckhospital.co.ukunreachableregister id 1-101728704; address from CQC care directory (location websites) (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the provider's one hospital location gives this site	—	No	—

Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.