HSJ Health Check returns this week, just as NHS England unveils new performance rankings for every trust in England.

We unpick how the league table is drawn up, ask who exactly it is aimed at, and whether it will have any meaningful impact on performance and transparency. 

Also, more on the cost of the latest doctors’ strikes and the financial asks facing trusts this year.

We are sorry for the poor quality audio at some points in this week’s podcast - we encountered problems with the platform we use to record it. We tried to clean it up as much as possible as we wanted to publish the discussion rather than scrap it all together this week.