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	Gloucestershire Foundation Trust - What is an NHS Foundation Trust?
		NHS Foundation Trusts are a completely new kind of organisation and new legislation is being passed to create them as Public Benefit Corporations.
		The NHS Foundation Trust will be able to invest more quickly, without control from the Department of Health at national level, to provide services that local people expect and need, improving the overall quality of major hospital services for patients, staff and local communities.
		Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust is applying to be an NHS Foundation Trust, it runs the largest hospitals in the county also two smaller hospitals, Standish Hospital and Delancey Assessment and Rehabilitation Hospital.
	www.glosfoundationtrust.nhs.uk /foundationtrust/foundationtrust35352.html (478 words)

	NLH - Health Management - Applying for NHS Trust Foundation Status
		Monitor is the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts which is responsible for assessing and authorising new applicant trusts (4), and monitoring existing NHS foundation trusts to ensure they remain within their Terms of Authorisation (5).
		NHS foundation trusts are a key element of the patient-led NHS, with accountability at local level, they are free from central government control and are able to build and retain surpluses which can be used to develop and improve the services they provide to their communities (4).
		NHS trusts, who will be applying for foundation trust status in the future, should use the Whole health community diagnostic programme, developed by the Department of Health.
	www.library.nhs.uk /healthmanagement/ViewResource.aspx?resID=125351&tabID=290&catID=4033 (878 words)

	Becoming an NHS Foundation Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Foundation Hospitals are new types of organisations which have more freedom to shape their services.
		As we are a three star NHS Trust we were invited to apply for status this year which we achieved from October 1 2006.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are set up as Public Benefit Corporations with a legal duty to provide NHS services to NHS patients.
	www.chelwest.nhs.uk /foundationtrust/abouthospitals/index.htm (193 words)

	Why We're Applying to Become an NHS Foundation Trust - OBMH
		Foundation Trusts are still part of the NHS, but a key difference is that local people have a real say in how their local health services are provided.
		Although the Trust would have greater financial freedom as a Foundation Trust, it will still be part of the NHS and will not be able to be privatised.
		As Foundation Trusts are accountable to their Members, and for their governance and financial arrangements to Monitor (the regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts, appointed by Parliament), the role of Strategic Health Authorities changes.
	www.obmh.nhs.uk /foundationtrust/why_apply.aspx (1123 words)

	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - Introduction
		Following three stars in the NHS performance ratings in 2004 and 2005, and a through assessment of the Trust for NHS Foundation Trust status, Salisbury Health Care was authorised as a NHS Foundation Trust on the 1 June 2006.
		As a NHS Foundation Trust, we have a membership that is reflective of the population we serve and this comes from local people, patients, carers, other local bodies and our own staff.
		Foundation status was approved by the regulator — known as Monitor - and a licence to operate granted.
	www.salisbury.nhs.uk /foundation/introduction/home.asp (364 words)

	Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Trust Foundation Trust Application
		NHS Foundation Trusts are NHS Trusts that will be given freedom from the controls of government to develop services to suit the needs of their local community.
		NHS Foundation Trusts will also have more financial freedoms to develop their services in the way they want; for example retaining any surpluses at the end of a financial year or raising capital money outside the current lengthy NHS approval processes.
		As all Trusts are likely to become NHS Foundation Trusts, it is exploring whether it may be beneficial to the Trust to apply earlier than the majority of Trusts.
	www.nlg.nhs.uk /foundation (738 words)

	NHS - Nottingham City Hospital - Foundation Trust
		NHS Foundation Trusts are a key part of the Government’s NHS policy.
		Foundation Trusts will remain part of the NHS and will adhere to the same principles and standards of quality care as other NHS organisations, but they will be more democratic.
		Our full application to become an NHS Foundation Trust was submitted to the Department of Health in June, for consideration by the Secretary of State for Health.
	www.nuh.nhs.uk /nch/foundation (1805 words)

	NLG \| Foundation Trust Application \| FAQ
		Where the Independent Regulator has serious concerns that an individual NHS Foundation Trust is in breach of its terms of authorisation, he or she will have statutory powers to intervene and take action to prevent problems in the future.
		As is the case with NHS Trusts, if something goes seriously wrong it will be primarily the responsibility of the organisation itself to take appropriate remedial action and to prevent future problems by learning the lessons and sharing this information with others.
		NHS Foundation Trusts will be fully responsible for the outcomes it achieves in terms of volume of work, quality and responsiveness to patients.
	www.nlg.nhs.uk /foundation/FAQ.htm (1802 words)

	Foundation Trust: Involving the Community - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
		The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust Board on Tuesday 24 May discussed the progress the Trust is making towards its application for Foundation Trust status and the importance of ensuring the local community, staff and partner organisations understand what it will mean for their local hospital.
		The key difference between NHS Foundation Trusts and existing NHS Trusts is that local people will have a real say in running their local hospital by becoming members of the Trust and electing governors.
		The Trust is one of 32 Trusts in the second wave of preliminary applications, all of which had to hold three-star rating in the 2003/2004 performance review and have to maintain it in 2004/2005 to be eligible to progress towards Foundation status.
	www.rbbh.nhs.uk /news/foundation-trust-involving-community.php (552 words)

	SDHCT » About us » News & publications » Latest news » Foundation Trust » NHS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NHS Foundation Trusts will be set up with a new form of social ownership, with a governance board elected by local people, patients and staff.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are subject to strict limits on private patient work based on the amount of private work they currently do.
		If South Devon Healthcare Trust is given the green light to become an NHS Foundation Trust from April next year (2006), everyone who has signed up will receive regular member news, be able to give their views about the way Torbay Hospital should be run, and even seek nomination to become a member representative.
	www.sdhct.nhs.uk /aboutUs/newsAndPublications/latestNews/foundationTrust/foundationTrustStatus.php (1918 words)

	NHS Foundation Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		NHS Foundation Trusts (often referred to as "foundation hospitals") are hospitals which are part of the NHS in England but have a significant amount of managerial and financial freedom.
		The introduction of NHS Foundation Trusts represents a profound change in the history of the NHS and the way in which hospital services are managed and provided.
		Whilst their stated purpose is to devolve decision-making from a centralised NHS to local communities in an effort to be more responsive to their needs and wishes, others however see the change towards semi-independent hospital boards as a move towards privatisation of the health service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NHS_Foundation_Trust (287 words)

	Welcome to the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust website
		Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is in south east London and provides mental health services for people living in the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich, specialist services to people living in Lewisham and North Southwark and learning disability services to people living in Bexley and Greenwich.
		The trust is only one of six mental health trusts in the country to be given an 'excellent' rating in this area.
		The independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts approved the trust's application and we are now a foundation trust.
	www.oxleas.nhs.uk (332 words)

	www.cht.nhs.uk: Foundation Trust Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the 1st of August 2006, The Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust became an NHS Foundation Trust.
		These are essential requirements for NHS foundation trusts to be able to operate with sufficient autonomy, deliver and exceed national targets and be responsive to local needs.
		The trust’s chairman, Gordon McLean, paid tribute to the continuing hard work of the staff which has helped to achieve the NHS Foundation Trust status.
	www.cht.nhs.uk /index.php?id=88 (470 words)

	Foundation Trust Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
		Foundation Trusts have to deliver on national targets and standards like the rest of the NHS, but they are free to decide how they achieve this.
		Foundation Trusts are part of the NHS and committed to its core principles of treating NHS patients according to clinical need, free at the point of delivery.
		Foundation Trust staff remain NHS staff with NHS terms and conditions and retain access to the NHS Pension scheme.
	www.gosh.nhs.uk /foundation/faqs.html (1713 words)

	NHS foundation trusts : The Department of Health - P&G: Org policy: Secondary care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NHS Foundation Trusts (often referred to as “foundation hospitals”) are at the cutting edge of the Government’s commitment to the decentralisation of public services and the creation of a patient-led NHS.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are a new type of NHS Trust in England and have been created to devolve decision-making from central Government control to local organisations and communities so they are more responsive to the needs and wishes of their local people.
		NHS Foundation Trust status is currently open to 2 star and 3 star acute, specialist, mental health and care trusts.
	www.dh.gov.uk /PolicyAndGuidance/OrganisationPolicy/SecondaryCare/NHSFoundationTrust/fs/en (835 words)

	What is an NHS Foundation Trust? : South Essex Partnership NHS Trust
		NHS Foundation Trusts are part of the NHS.
		With greater freedoms as a NHS Foundation Trust, we are able to develop services that are more responsive to local needs.
		As a NHS Foundation Trust we are able to explore different ways of working in partnership with staff to deliver local services with increased freedom to reward excellence.
	www.southessex-trust.nhs.uk /foundation.asp (282 words)

	Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The essence of being an NHS Foundation Trust is devolution.
		When a trust like the RDandE is granted NHS Foundation Trust status it becomes as independent, public interest organisation that is no longer subject to direction from the Health Secretary.
		As an NHS Foundation Trust the RDandE is accountable to the local community for the services we deliver, and to the independent regulator who ensures that we work within our terms of authorisation and our constitution.
	www.rdehospital.nhs.uk /rde/foundation/foundation.htm (422 words)

	Basildon and Thurrock NHS Foundation Trust \| About Your Foundation Trust \| Trust Profile
		We were one of the first 10 NHS Foundation Trusts in the country and have been awarded University status by the University of London.
		The Trust has a cancer unit for the treatment of breast, bowel and lung cancers, and other specialist units include a modern renal dialysis department, recently extended to 24 stations, making it the largest in Essex and haematology and dermatology day centres.
		Foundation Trusts are owned and controlled locally and are accountable to their community through their Public and Staff Members.
	www.basildonandthurrock.nhs.uk /page.asp?node=8 (1500 words)

	Leeds Mental Health - Teaching NHS Trust
		NHS Foundation Trusts will be NHS hospitals, fully part of the National Health Service, but with greater freedom to run their own affairs.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are part of the NHS Plan Reform Programme to open up the system so that it provides more responsive services to patients.
		NHS Foundation Trusts will be legally required to use the assets they hold in ways that promote their primary purpose of providing NHS care to NHS patients.
	www.leedsmentalhealth.nhs.uk /foundationtrust/faq.cfm (1896 words)

	NHS Sheffield - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust - Working for us
		The Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the training and development of its staff.
		A key objective for the Trust is the development all staff regardless of job, profession or grade.
		The Trust is therefore committed to the development of the non-professional workforce and in particular in increasing the uptake in the following:
	www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk /working/4-4.php (359 words)

	Becoming an NHS Foundation Trust
		The NHS belongs to all of us, and being part of an NHS Foundation Trust gives you the opportunity to have a say in how it is run.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are a new kind of NHS organisation.
		Foundation Trusts remain in the NHS and have a primary purpose of providing NHS services to NHS patients free at the point of delivery and based on clinical need, not ability to pay.
	www.roh.nhs.uk /view_content.php?menu_id=89 (736 words)

	NHS Sheffield - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - A Foundation Trust
		NHS Trusts are the organisations that run NHS hospitals on behalf of the Government.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are NHS trusts that are given freedom from the controls of government to develop services to suit the needs of their local community.
		Sheffield Teaching Hospitals was given the opportunity to apply to become one of the first-wave trusts because at the time it achieved the highest rating of three-stars in the NHS Star ratings.
	www.sth.nhs.uk /foundation/index.php (313 words)

	Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
		Yeovil District Hospital was authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust on 1 June 2006, having demonstrated the highest standards of clinical and financial performance, and public support.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are still firmly part of the NHS, but have greater freedom from central control, and more financial independence.
		Elected and appointed Governors for Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are as follows:
	www.somerset-health.org.uk /es/foundation/index.html (352 words)

	Trust takes a step towards Foundation Trust - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
		The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust’s Board agreed to submit a preliminary application to the Department of Health at its meeting on Tuesday (23 November).
		This preliminary application is the Trust’s way of expressing an interest in becoming a Foundation Trust but it is not an application to become a Foundation Trust.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are legally independent public benefit corporations (like mutual societies) with a duty to provide NHS services to NHS patients.
	www.rbbh.nhs.uk /news/trust-takes-step-towards-foundation-trust.php (628 words)

	Foundation Trust homepage
		Being a Foundation Trust allows us to do things differently from other hospitals, which means we can do more to improve the care and support we give to our patients.
		Through their members and the Members’ Council, NHS Foundation Trusts will be better able to listen and respond to the views of local people, patients and their staff.
		Our NHS Foundation Trust has members (people just like you) and a Members’ Council – the Council is elected by the public, patient and staff members and more than half are local people or patients.
	www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk /about/foundationtrust/foundationtrust.aspx (263 words)

	Foundation Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The invitation to apply for NHS Foundation Trust status was based on the Trust's three-star rating for three successive years in the NHS Performance Ratings (2001-03), an achievement the Trust has continued to maintain year on year.
		Local people and organisations were part of a 10-week public consultation period on how the foundation trust would be set up and run, and how it would represent different interests and geographical areas.
		Foundation trusts are still part of the NHS but, because they are the top-performing hospitals, they have some extra freedoms:
	www.dbh.nhs.uk /about_us/foundation_trust/default.asp (391 words)

	Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
		The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust was successful in becoming an NHS Foundation Trust from 1st June 2006.
		NHS Foundation Trusts are part of the Government’s wider programme of reform for the NHS.
		These arrangements make the Trust accountable to local communities and staff, allowing them much greater influence over the way the services provided by the Trust are delivered and developed and to have more say in how our hospitals are run.
	www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk /nhs-foundation-trust-status (160 words)

	Foundation Hospitals - NHS - NHS Foundation Trust - NHS Confederation - Department of Health DoH - LegalDay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NHS Reform Labour Party bosses push to corral the vote on foundation hospitals Telegraph Revolt is dwindling 07.05.03 Guardian
		Foundation Hospitals Blair is throwing his weight behind proposals for semi-privatised NHS foundations, pushing Brown's opposition to the side, 46 hospitals are currently eligible but most will follow 28.02.03 Times
		NHS Foundation Milburn is standing up to Brown, insisting on widespread change in status of NHS trusts to independent foundations Guardian, PFI pioneer resigns ahead of expected criticism 21.02.03 Independent
	www.legalday.co.uk /current/foundation.htm (1054 words)

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