Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

Class Description: Reports, policies, minutes of meetings and business plans

The Trust has a statutory responsibility to plan and deliver services for the people it serves. In order to do this effectively and to ensure that our plans are transparent and available to all our staff as well as the public, we produce a series of documents that we routinely publish are publicly available. A copy of the following reports can be found via the hyperlinks or hard copies can be provided with any charges being in accordance with Trust Policy as detailed in Class 15 of this Publication Scheme.

1. Annual Report
   The 2005/06 Annual Report was published in September 2006.
   
   
2. Trust Board Papers
   Agenda, supporting papers and minutes for the Trust Board and associated Sub-Committees.
   
   
3. Business Plan
   See Class 6 for the Trust’s Business Plan and Objectives
   
   
4. The Capital Programme
   
   
5. Corporate Communications Please see News for briefing notes for staff and other communications publicly available such as Press Releases and Team News
   
   
6. Organisational Policies and Strategies: Class 8 lists some of the principle policies of the Trust
   
   
7. Star Ratings
   
   
8. The Environment Strategy
   
   
9. The Trust Health and Safety Policy
   
   

Internal meetings:

Minutes of other internal meetings that are available include:

• Business Development Committee
• Charitable Funds Committee
• Governance Committee
• Infrastructure Committee
• Performance Management Committee
• Practice  Standards Committee
• Workforce Committee
• Professional Nursing Advisory Group
• Medical Staffing Committee
• Strategic Management Group
• Executive Team
• Health and Social Care Records Committee
• Race Equality
• Mental Health Act Managers Committee

Some information that is of a personal and confidential nature or otherwise exempt under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or Data Protection Act 1998 will be excluded as will any other confidential material. This includes material relating to the health and safety of specific individuals, as to law enforcement or criminal or regulatory enforcement or audit issues may also be excluded from publication. There may be circumstances where material cannot be released because the appropriate officer of the Trust has taken the view that it may be prejudicial to the conduct of public affairs.