Through Foundation Trust status, this will benefit patients, carers, the general public and our employees.
Benefits of FT Status
Improved Governance – Strong, strategic, systematic governance is a feature of NHS Foundation Trusts. This means we have good systems in place to manage our services.
Clearer Plans and Financial Flows
Having five year strategic plans which are costed, financially modelled for different scenarios and are made to stick is a liberating element of FT status.
Partnership Clarity
Partnership understanding is improved on how service models, pathways and complex packages operate. Joined up services improve.
FT status as a Unifying Objective
The route to Authorisation as an FT makes the whole organisation work together to one objective and that has the effect of making the organisation come together.
Earned Autonomy
Through FT status we will be able to determine our own future developments more easily than we can at the moment.
Membership Engagement
We will have a more systematic approach to engagement and involvement, which will make a difference to the way we provide services.
Level Playing Field
We will be able to work under the same market as the private and voluntary sector organisations that provide mental health and learning disability services.
