Welcome to the Board of Directors of
South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
What is the role of the Board of Directors?
- Provide active leadership of the NHS Foundation Trust within a framework of prudent and effective controls which enables risk to be assessed and managed.
- Ensure compliance by the NHS Foundation Trust with its terms of authorisation, its constitution, mandatory guidance issued by Monitor, relevant statutory requirements and contractual obligations.
- Set the NHS Foundation Trust’s strategic aims, taking into consideration the views of the board of governors, ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place for the NHS Foundation Trust to meet its objectives and review management performance.
- Ensure the quality and safety of healthcare services, education, training and research delivered by the NHS foundation trust and applying the principles and standards of clinical governance set out by the Department of Health, the Healthcare Commission, and other relevant NHS bodies.
- Ensure that the NHS foundation trust exercises its functions effectively, efficiently and economically.
- Set the NHS Foundation Trust’s values and standards of conduct and ensure that its obligations to its members, patients and other stakeholders are understood and met.
- Take decisions objectively in the interests of the NHS Foundation Trust.
- Ensure effective joint decision making as a unitary board.
- Scrutinise the performance of the management in meeting agreed goals and objectives.
- Ensure the integrity of financial, clinical and other information, and that financial and clinical quality controls and systems of risk management are robust and defensible.
- Determine the appropriate levels of remuneration of executive directors and have a prime role in appointing, and where necessary removing, executive directors, and in succession planning.
Composition of the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors consists of:
- Chairman (non executive)
- 6 other non executive directors
Executive and other directors
- Chief Executive
- Director of Finance
- Medical Director
- Director of Nursing and Patient Safety, Director of Infection, Prevention and Control
- Director of Operational Services
- Director of Planning
- Director of Information
- Director of Human Resources
The Board are also joined by the staff side representative and chair of the senior medical staff committee.