Membership

Membership Services

• Member Satisfaction Survey 2012
  Please take a few minutes to complete our Member Survey. This will be available until 1st July 2012.

Dates for your Diary

• Calendar of Events for Members 2012
• North Lincolnshire Wellness and Recovery Network
  8 week Session begins 12th April 2012 (external link)
• Long Term Conditions Stakeholder Event 24th April 2012

To book a place on any of these lectures contact the Foundation Trust Office on (01724) 387946 or email nlg-tr.foundationtrustoffice@nhs.net.

Foundation Trust - what does it mean?

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS foundation Trust was granted foundation status on 1st May 2007. Foundation trusts are intended to make health services more responsive and accountable to local people. They remain part of the NHS and continue to provide treatment which is free and based on people’s need, not their ability to pay.

The difference is that foundation trusts have greater flexibility to make their own decisions about how they are run. In particular this means:

• Greater control and financial freedom. For example, being able to retain surpluses for investment into improvements in treatment and facilities.
• Patients, staff, carers and the public are more involved in the planning and development of services.
• Services can be delivered more efficiently and effectively.
• The foundation trust is accountable to its members, governors and the local community.

If you would like to more about foundation status please contact the Membership Office.

You can become a member of the foundation trust by completing our Membership Form.

About the Membership Office

The Membership Office deals with all services for members of the Trust. This includes management of the membership database, making arrangements for elections and the distribution of newsletters, and providing a point of contact for members with the Trust and with governors.

An important function of the Membership Office is to support the activities of governors on behalf of the Trust. A range of secretarial services is provided, including the arrangement of venues for meetings with members and others, support for sub groups of the Council of Governors, and provision of information and training. All the resources for support of governors are administered through the office.

In addition to all of this, the Membership Office takes the leading role in patient and public involvement activities for the Trust. This involves providing assistance for service areas in the arrangement of public consultation and other engagement activities and also co-ordinating patient surveys conducted by departments within the Trust and ensuring that they comply with ethical and other standards. Trust-wide surveys of patients are undertaken by the Membership Office, in particular the national patient surveys, which are administered and analysed entirely in-house.

For further information please contact the Membership Office.