Patients at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust are benefitting from cleaner hospitals and better food, and are afforded better standards of dignity, according to the latest PLACE (Patient-led Assessments of the Care Environment) assessment.

The trust’s overall cleanliness rating is 99.52% — above the national average of 98.5%, and above the Midlands and East average rating of 98.4%.

The figures, published by NHS Digital, also rated the trust above the national average for its food (92.46%), the condition of its buildings (96.16%) and how the environment allows patients to be treated with privacy, dignity and wellbeing (85.03%).

Assessments were carried out by patient groups, including Healthwatch, members of the trust and members of the board of governors, focusing on all three sites at the trust — King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton, Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals director of strategic planning, Peter Wozencroft, said: “We believe that in general we have facilities that patients want to be treated in and staff want to work in.

“We work very hard on making sure our facilities are as good as they can be, which is why it is pleasing to see results like these which demonstrate that we are on the right track.”