The body which runs hospitals in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire is being placed in special measures.

NHS Humber Health Partnership which has hospitals in Hull, Cottingham, Goole, Scunthorpe, and Grimsby will fall into the lowest category on a government league table.

HHP said it had been informed by NHS England “that it will move into Segment 5 of the National Oversight Framework”. The lowest category on a sliding scale of one to five, the segment is reserved for those facing the most significant performance, financial, or governance challenges.

HHP, which is being led by interim chief executive Lyn Simpson, who brought in an improvement team last summer, after the departure of former CEO Jonathan Lofthouse, said it had "agreed a set of enforcement undertakings" with NHS England.

Humber Health Partnership, which runs Hull Royal Infirmary and four other hospitals, will be going into special measures

placeholder image — Humber Health Partnership, which runs Hull Royal Infirmary and four other hospitals, will be going into special measures

Unison regional organiser Brendan Cafferty said: “This news comes after a series of concerning decisions made by the interim team running Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. A constant turnover of senior managers alongside regular changes to structures within the trust has created a sense of uncertainty for staff, and a lack of clarity over who is in charge.

“It also raises questions over whether decisions are being made in the best interests of patients.”

Hull University Teaching Hospitals, which runs Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, is listed fifth from the bottom of 134 acute trusts in an NHS league table. Just over half of the patients at the trust ((53.1%) start their treatment for cancer within the recommended two months.

It was revealed last week that one in six patients (16.5%) who began cancer treatment in December 2025 had been waiting more than 104 days since an urgent referral.

HHP said they’d launched a clinically-led improvement plan, setting out “clear actions to strengthen patient safety, stabilise services and improve reliability of care”.

The legally-binding agreements with NHS England, which commit bodies to taking specific actions to fix identified problems, “provide a structured framework to support delivery of that work”. The process of hiring senior leadership “will begin shortly”, a statement added.