Trust Board says yes to NHS Foundation Trust bid
15/02/05
Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust Board decided on the 14 February 2005 to go ahead with making a formal application for NHS Foundation Trust status.
Following the submission of a successful preliminary application in late 2004, the Trust now has to prepare for the Secretary of State a further, more detailed, application. This has to be submitted by December 2005. This application will include the organisation's five year business strategy, plans for developing and supporting its workforce and proposals on how the organisation will be run as an NHS Foundation Trust.
The Secretary of State will look at the Trust's application and decide whether to support a formal submission to the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts, the body which decides whether Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust may become a foundation trust.
The Trust will consult in the autumn with service users, carers, staff, partner organisations and the public on its plans to become an NHS Foundation Trust.
Foundation Trusts are a new type of organisation within the NHS which through the creation of a membership drawn from local people and staff aim to create stronger links between health services and local communities.
Gloucester Partnership NHS Trust believes becoming a foundation trust provides many opportunities, including:
- reducing the stigma that surrounds mental illness and learning disability by raising awareness;
- creating services that reflect the needs and expectations of local people through the greater involvement of staff, service users, carers, organisations who work with Trust and the public;
- increasing the Trust's public accountability and
- improving the recruitment and retention of staff.
David Coombs, Deputy Chief Executive said:
"We believe that the opportunities that come with Foundation Trust status will help us realise our vision of transforming the experience of service users and carers. There will also be very real opportunities for investing in the development of staff.
"We will consult in the autumn on our plan to become a foundation trust but will in the meantime seek the input of staff, service users, carers and the organisations with whom we work, into the development of our submission to the Secretary of State."
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