NHS Foundation Trust Application

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NHS Foundation Trust Application
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Your Local Leading Healthcare Centre is asking
for your views
Achieving national commitments 18 weeks
achieved Cancer wait times achieved
Lowest hospital acquired infection rate in West
Midlands
Best renal transplant outcomes in UK - leaders
in antibody incompatible transplants
Healthcare commission commended Maternity
services
1st 24 hourangioplasty in West Midlands
World class surgical training
Award winning services
Leaders in pre term labour
Nationally recognised diabetes research
50 less Cdiff and falling MRSA cases
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An NHS Foundation Trust

• UHCW is applying to become an NHS Foundation
  Trust

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What is a Foundation Trust?

• NHS care stays free at point of delivery
• Independent public benefit corporation
• Your hospitals with local ownership
• Not performance managed by central government
• Enables longer term financial planning
• Greater freedom to innovate

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Why do we want FT status?

• To involve you in the running of your local
  hospitals
• To invest in the right services for you
• To respond more flexibly to your needs
• To become a membership organisation
• To further improve the safety and quality of our
  patient care

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What do you need to do?

• Become a member
• Consider standing for election as a governor

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Foundation Trust Structure
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For more information

• Visit our website at www.uhcw.nhs.uk/foundationtr
  ust
• Email foundation_at_uhcw.nhs.uk
• Telephone the Foundation Trust Project on02476
  964747 (internal 24747)

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Questions
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