YORKSHIRE Ambulance Service NHS Trust is among ten more NHS trusts which have had conditions placed on their registration with a healthcare regulator.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has granted licences to 201 trusts and another ten with conditions – including Yorkshire and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust – under a new, tougher system.

Last week, two trusts were registered with conditions and another 64 without in the first of three waves of registration. In this second wave, the CQC said some of its concerns “go right to the heart of basic patient care”.

All 381 NHS trusts in England must be registered with the CQC by April 1 to be able to carry on providing services. If trusts fail to meet standards, the CQC has stronger enforcement powers than before, including being able to give warning notices and fines. The regulator will also be able to prosecute trusts, close them down or restrict their activities in serious cases.

Meanwhile, excessive death rates at 25 hospital trusts, including two in Yorkshire and the Humberside, should be probed by the Government, one of Britain’s leading experts on the subject said.

The Department for Health insisted it is already taking “tough” action against underperforming hospitals after Professor Sir Brian Jarman said thousands more patients had died between 2007 and 2008 than would normally be expected.

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust both had a higher than expected hospital standardised mortality ratio, according to Sir Brian’s research.