Our Group arrangement
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and working together as NHS Humber Health Partnership. You’ll find information about both Trusts on this page.
How we work
We are NHS Humber Health Partnership – the group name for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. We have a joint Executive Team and a Trust Boards in Common.
The Board
Our Trust Boards in Common oversees the day-to-day running of the two organisations, exercising its power through various sub-committees in common including:
- Audit, Risk and Governance Committee
- Performance, Estates and Finance Committee
- Health Tree Foundation Committee
- Quality and Safety Committee
- Strategic Development Committee
- Remuneration and Terms of Service Committee
- Workforce, education and culture Committee
The board meets bi-monthly to approve new polices, receive reports on performance and make decisions about how the partnership run. The board then delegates actions to each of the sub committees.
Care Groups and Directorates
Our departments all sit under a care group or corporate directorate.
Care Group Structure with names as of June 2026Care Groups
- Acute and Emergency Medicine
- Cancer Network
- Cardiovascular
- Community, Frailty and Therapy
- Digestive Diseases
- Family Services
- Head and Neck
- Major Trauma Network
- Neuroscience
- Pathology Network
- Patient Services
- Site Management and Discharge Teams
- Specialist Cancer and Support Services
- Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care
- Specialist Medicine
- Specialist Surgery
Corporate Directorates
- Assurance
- Chief Executive’s Office
- Chief Medical Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Nurse Directorate
- Digital Services
- Estates, Facilities and Development
- Finance
- People
- Quality Governance
- Transformation
Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
‘Freedom to Speak Up’ is for anyone who works in health. Every NHS provider in England has a ‘Freedom to Speak Up Guardian’ who supports individuals working within the NHS to feel safe and confident to speak up about workplace concerns. You can find out more about what Freedom to Speak Up is on the NHS England website.
Freedom to Speak Up Guardians can be contacted by current and past employees, students, trainees, agency/bank, volunteers and in some circumstances, contractors.
If you work at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust, you can contact: [email protected]
If you work at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, you can contact: [email protected]
Please note, patients and their families who have concerns or suggestions for improvement, should contact the PALS service. The Freedom to speak up service is also different to Freedom of Information.
About Foundation Trusts (NLaG only)
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is a Foundation Trust which means we are accountable to our local community – local people, patients and staff can have a real say in how the Trust is run by becoming members.
NHS Foundation Trusts were created to devolve decision making from central government to local organisations and communities, with a strong and clear line of local democratic accountability. A new governance structure was designed specifically for Foundation Trusts, which ensures the direct participation of local communities, and provides and develops healthcare according to the core NHS principles of free care, based on need and not ability to pay.
Those living in constituencies that are served by the Trust can become members and from these members governors are elected to represent members’ interests in the running of the organisation. Members are able to engage in establishing the direction of services provision and ensure that hospital services more accurately reflect the needs and expectations of local people. We have been a Foundation Trust since May 2007.
Council of Governors (NLaG only)
Our Council of Governors represent the interests of local communities, partners and staff in the development of our organisation and oversee the following sub-committees:
- Appointments and Remuneration Committee
- Governor Assurance Group
Governors are the link between our members and directors; they are responsible for conveying information from the Trust Board to members about affordability, service plans and health improvement initiatives. Our Council of Governors has both elected and nominated governors:
- Public governors are elected by public members
- Staff governors are elected by staff members
- Stakeholder governors are nominated by partner organisations including GP providers, commissioners, local authorities and medical schools