Access to Information

• Access to Information (34k)
• Guidance Document (19k)

Who we are and what we do

Organisational information, structures, locations and contacts - please refer to Integrated Business Plan

• How we fit into the NHS Structure (18k)
• Statement of Purpose (68k)
• Organisational Structure - Corporate (687k)
• Medicine and Diagnostic Services Directorate Structure (11k)
• Women, Children's and Surgical Services Directorate Structure (19k)
• List of organisations with which the authority works in partnership (20k)
• Board Members, Non Executive Directors and Associate Directors
• Council of Governors
• Location and contact details for all departments
  • Cancer Services - Departments/Clinics/Wards

Senior Staff Members Profiles

• Board Members  (85k)
• Clinical Directors  (18k)
• General Managers  (24k)
• Matrons  (76k)

What we spend and how we spend it

Financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit (114k)

• Annual statement of accounts
• Budgets and variance reports
• Financial audit reports
• Monthly Financial Report (68k)
• Standing financial instructions (375k)
• Capital programme (32k)
• Staff and Board members’ allowances and expenses (25k)
  • Allowances paid to Directors during financial year 2009/10 (21k)
  • Allowances paid to Directors during financial year 2008/09 (21k)
  • Allowances paid to Directors during financial year 2007/08 (21k)
• Staff pay and grading structures (opens in new window - link to NHS Employers)
  • Directors' salaries are detailed within our latest Annual Report
• Funding (including endowment funds)
• Procurement and tendering procedures (96k) `
• Details of contracts currently being tendered (57k) - For contractual arrangements in 2007/2008 refer to Section 2, 2.7 of the Integrated Business Plan
  • High Value Tenders (16k)
• List and value of contracts awarded and their value
  • Awarded Contracts List (23k)
• Transparency - items of spend over £25,000
  

What are our priorities and how are we doing

• Annual Report
• Annual Business Plan
• Targets, Aims and Objectives (202k)
• Strategic Direction document (5 year plan) - please refer to the Integrated Business Plan
• Performance against targets (KPI)/performance framework
• Clinical Governance
• Health care Commission – Annual check
• Audit Reports
• Service User Surveys
  • Inpatient Survey 2009 - Final Report (1.04Mb)
  • Inpatient Survey 2009 - Executive Summary (905k)
  • Outpatient Survey 2009 - Final Report (1.58Mb)
  • Outpatient Survey 2009 - Executive Summary (1.02Mb)
  • Service User Survey 2007 (1.16Mb)

How we make decisions

• Board of Directors meetings – agenda, supporting papers and minutes
• Council of Governors meetings
• Patient and public involvement strategy (PPI) (74k)
• Committee Terms of Reference:
  • Audit Committee (34k)
  • Charitable Funds Committee (20k)
  • Finance Investment Committee (24k)
  • Nomination Committee (25k)
  • Remuneration Committee (29k)
  • Risk Committee (23k)
• Public consultations
• Internal communications guidance and criteria used for decision making i.e. process systems and key personnel (146k)

Our policies and procedures

• Policies and procedures relating to the conduct of business and the provision of services
  • Council of Governors Rules of Procedure:
    • Code of Practice (32k)
    • Meetings of Governors (30k)
    • Registerable Interests (33k)
    • Registers (19k)
• Policies and procedures relating to human resources (including Race, Disability, Age and Gender, Equal Opportunities)
• Policies and procedures relating to recruitment and employment
• Standing financial procedures (605k)
• Standing orders - Monitor's website (opens in a new window)
• Complaints and other customer service policies and procedures
• Data protection / information governance / Caldicott Guardian
• Estate management
• Charging regimes and policies

List and registers

• Any information we are currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers
  • The Trust's Public Members' Database is managed by an external company. Contact email
• List of main contractors / suppliers (17k)
• Assets registers and Information Asset Register
  • For details please contact the Trust's FoI Officer
    on extension 5521 or via e-mail.
• Any register of interests kept in the authority:
  • Council of Governors (32k)
  • Board of Directors (24k)
• Register of Gifts and Hospitality provided to Board members and senior personnel
  • This is available in hard copy only, for further details please contact the
    Trust's FoI Officer on extension 5521 or via e-mail.
    
• Disclosure Log
  • This Disclosure Log contains the Trust's responses to FoI requests received in the last 6 months.  The Log will be updated on a 6 monthly basis.  If you have a query on any of the responses please contact the Trust's FoI Officer on extension 5521 or via e-mail.

The services we offer

• Clinical services provided and/or commissioned
• Non-clinical services:
  • Corporate Development Directorate (61k)
  • Estates and Facilities (27k)
  • Finance (27k)
  • Governance Support Unit (17k)
  • Human Resources (18k)
• Services for which the authority is entitled to recover a fee together with those fees
• Patient information leaflets and other booklets and newsletters
  • NHS Choices website
  • Department of Health website
• PALS
• Advice and guidance
• Corporate communications & media releases