Trust Board meetings
Our trust board meets every two months. The public may
attend these meetings, and agendas and papers are available to
download in advance. Minutes of meetings are also published on
our website; see the trust board pages for more information.
Patient and public involvement
We are fully commited to patient
and public involvement. Our action plan for patient and
public involvement describes some of the progress that we
have made in this area and sets out our plan to build on this
work over the next four years.
More information can be found on our section about
how we involve our community.
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Equality and Inclusion
In line with equalities legislation, we assess our policies
and functions for their relevance to promoting and delivering
equality across the protected characteristic groups -
age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil
partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex,
and sexual orientation.
Equality analysis reports are carried out using a standard
form:
Visit our equality and inclusion pages to view
a list of our recent equality analysis reports.
Equality annual
Reports
The Equality Act 2010 requires all public
bodies and NHS Trusts to assess their performance on equality and
inclusion across the protected characteristic groups (age,
disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership,
pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual
orientation) and show how they are improving the experiences of
staff, patients and service users and other stakeholders,
Each year we publish our annual equality
report, which details the progress it has made over the last year
on equality and inclusion issues in regard to its staff, patients
and service users and other stakeholders, across all the key
functions of the Service.
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Public consultations
Our plans to become a foundation trust
Our public consultation on our plans to become a foundation
trust ran from 9 February to 15 May 2009.
We spoke with over 1800 members of the public
during the consultation period, encouraged all of our staff to give
us feedback and shared our plans with over 2000 partner
organisations.
We received 350 formal responses to the
proposals set out in our consultation document, and the feedback
was broadly positive.
Our full response to the consultation findings
Full details of the consultation findings can
be found in our evaluation document.
Our consultation documents
Our proposals were set out in our consultation
documents:
Find out more about our public consultation for becoming a foundation
trust.
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