An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care. As of March 2019 there were 151 foundation trusts.
Monitor was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health,responsible between 2004 and 2016 for ensuring healthcare provision in NHS England was financially effective. It was the sector regulator for health services in England. Its chief executive was Ian Dalton and it was chaired by Dido Harding. Monitor was merged with the NHS Trust Development Authority to form NHS Improvement on 1 April 2016.
Simon Francis Murphy is a British charity executive and former politician who was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
Sir David Nicholson is a public policy analyst and NHS Manager who is the Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England. He was appointed in October 2011 following the NHS reforms,having been seventh Chief executive of the NHS within the Department of Health since September 2006. He issued what has become known as the "Nicholson challenge" regarding the finances of the NHS. He retired from the role on 1 April 2014 in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Barking,Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS trust which runs King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. It also operates clinics at a number of sites in the nearby area including Barking Hospital and Brentwood Community Hospital.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust in London,England. It is closely involved with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust,with which it shares its chair,Sir Hugh Taylor,its strategy director and IT director. It is assumed that the two organisations will eventually merge.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust of the English National Health Service,one of the prestigious Shelford Group. It runs Guy's Hospital in London Bridge,St Thomas' Hospital in Waterloo,Evelina London Children's Hospital,two specialist heart and lung hospitals,Royal Brompton and Harefield and community services in Lambeth,Southwark and Lewisham.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) is an NHS Foundation Trust. It provides healthcare for people of the Wirral Peninsula and the surrounding areas of North West England and North Wales.
Sir Robert Naylor was the Chief Executive of University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust until September 2016.
The Stafford Hospital scandal concerns poor care and high mortality rates amongst patients at the Stafford Hospital,Stafford,England,during the first decade of the 21st century. The hospital was run by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust,and supervised by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority. It has been renamed County Hospital. The scandal also resulted in the resignation of NHS Chief Sir David Nicholson in 2013.
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust in North West England,providing services in South Cumbria and North Lancashire in the Morecambe Bay area. It has about 6,000 employees and provides services for some 350,000 people.
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust provides community and mental health services across Dorset. It serves a population of almost 700,000 people,employing around 5,000 staff. The Trust's income is approximately £242.5 million.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2001 and gained Foundation Trust status in 2007. It runs three hospitals in Nottinghamshire - King's Mill Hospital,Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital. It also operates services from Ashfield Health Village.
David Flory is a British National Health Service (NHS) manager,formerly the Chief Executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority. He was previously the director general of NHS finance,performance and operations.
Dame Barbara Ann Hakin DBE is a former Deputy Chief Executive of NHS England. She was formerly the Chief Executive of the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority. She was formerly a General Practitioner in Bradford.
Sir David Nigel Dalton is the interim chief executive of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and previously Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in northern England. In April 2016,he was appointed as Chief Executive of Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust,in addition to his role as Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust,a post he held since 2001. He stepped down from the roles in March 2019,around the time that management of both trusts was combined under the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group.
Dr. Hugo Mascie-Taylor is a medical doctor and administrator.
Synnovis,formerly Viapath,is a London-based provider of pathology services. It is a partnership between Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust,King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,and SYNLAB UK &Ireland.
Sir Ronald James Kerr is a health service manager in the United Kingdom.
