NHS Foundation Trust Status

Geoff Williams made this Freedom of Information request to Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

The request was successful.

From: Geoff Williams

6 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would be grateful if you could forward me the following
information:

The legal advice sought and gained to ensure that Barnet's "Forms
for a Fiver" scheme, in which staff members are paid five pounds
for every signatory gained in support of Barnet's application for
Foundation Trust status, is both lawful and compliant with the
rules governing said application as laid out by the Department of
Health.

Yours faithfully,

Geoff Williams

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Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

7 August 2009

Attachment request response re forms for a fiver.pdf
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Attachment satisfaction questionnaire.pdf
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Dear Mr Williams

Please find enclosed the response to this request.

Yours sincerely

Alison Macdonald
Board Secretary
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
Trust Headquarters
Maple Block, Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
Enfield
Middx EN2 8JL

Tel: 020 8375 2270
Fax: 020 366 1361

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D. Speers left an annotation (11 August 2009)

Foundation Trust status was debated in Parliament but after that the Secretary of State for Health withdrew the offer of Foundation Trust status for hospitals with secure services.
So that these hospitals did "not lose out on FT freedoms" the term Foundation Trust equivalant was developed by Dept of Health. FTe was not debated in Parliament and therefore was not open to public scrutiny.
As secure services, an Investigation into an incident at Broadmoor hospital was commissioned by the SoS but the concerns re Pateient Safety were only investigated by the Healthcare Commission as a result of a complaint brought to them as regulators. ]
WLMHT failed to investigate Serious Untoward Incidents (SUI) and the HC/CQC report supports this view. Comment on this is now on the Care Quality Commission website: "Investigation into West London mental Health Trust" www.cqc.org.uk

Despite leaving his trust just prior to the publication of the HC/CQC report, the ex-CEO of WLMHT has moved to a job at the Strategic Health Authority NHS London , where the Broadmoor Report (into failures of management at WLMHT) is still awaiting publication.....these may be totally unrelated but I would argue that until and CEO can prove that their mangement skills are 'fit for purpose' then there should not be a public job available.
The questions must be what are the 'freedoms of FT /FTe,' and why is FT seen to be the Holy Grail....with a Fiver being offered? How will the closure of the Healthcare Commission as regulator (yet another decision made without consulting the public)affect the way we can access heathcare in this country?

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