Since telling the public about our plans to become a Foundation Trust, we have had a lot of interest from people wanting to find out more. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions. We hope you find this information useful and that it will encourage you to take an active role in our plans.
NHS Foundation Trusts are still very much part of the NHS, providing free, quality healthcare based on need. They are Public Benefit Corporations, accountable to their members, in a similar way to the Co-operative Movement, rather than to the Department of Health in London. They are organised so people from local communities, patients, members of staff and partners can influence health services.
They are:
To build on our successes by being able to do more and secure the future of the Trust as an independent body with the ability to govern its own finances and determine its own future plans.
There are three stages where a decision on whether our application progresses is taken. These decisions are made by the Strategic Health Authority (SHA), the Secretary of State for Health and the Foundation Trust regulator, Monitor.
We have to demonstrate that the organisation:
We will become a Foundation Trust when Monitor grant us a licence (via a letter of authorisation) to operate as a Foundation Trust. We were aiming for this to happen as soon as possible during 2011 but recent modifications in the application process mean this will now be during 2012. However, we still aim to become a Foundation Trust as soon as we can. This of course also depends on how quickly we can move through the application and assessment process.
Members do a number of things:
It is entirely up to each member how active they want to be.
There are no costs or liabilities in being a member.
Yes.
Yes. We have gone through a rigorous series of checks to make sure data is held in it securely and accurately. The database will be hosted by a third party; a subsidiary of Electoral Reform Services, and so it will comply with both UHCW and Electoral Reform Services information governance requirements, as well as those required by data protection law.
We are proposing to have 23 Governors
However, these are proposals that will be included in the public consultation, and so may change. The detail of the proposals is included in our proposed Constitution that will be available during the consultation.
There will no change to the day to day running of the hospital. What will be different is the way we’re able to make and implement decisions about things like services and investments. This should mean that we’ll be able to respond more quickly to the needs of our patients and provide better and more effective services for them.
Because we’ll be able to decide things like how and where we spend our money, it means that our response to service improvement needs should be quicker and more focussed. That should lead to improvements.
Most were informed informally and were then consulted as part of the statutory public consultation phase of our application. So far they are all supportive.
We will be more in charge of our own finances and be able to generate surpluses from our activities, which we will then be able to reinvest in the services we provide. We still have to be aware of how we generate our income and where we spend it, to be assured of a secure financial future.
All NHS provider organisations are expected to become Foundation Trusts.
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