Publication Scheme

The Freedom of Information Act (2000) requires every NHS organisation to have a Publication Scheme. These schemes let the public know what information each NHS organisation publishes.

This includes plans, management arrangements, performance, inspection reports, policies and procedures and the minutes of key meetings.

We will endeavour to make as much information as possible available directly via this site, however as we continue to build our Publication Scheme, some content will be supplied on request.

Below you will find links to the relevant areas of our website which contain this information. Where links are not provided you can submit a Freedom of Information request. Should you make a request for information which falls within the scope of the Publication Scheme we will aim to supply this information within 10 working days. Information held by our Trust which falls outside of our Publication Scheme will be subject to the standard Freedom of Information timescales and we will aim to supply this information within 20 working days.

Who we are and what we do

• How we fit into the NHS structure: About us.
• Organisational structure: Board of Directors.
• Gender pay gap reporting: Equality and Diversity.
• Workforce diversity: Annual review.
• Lists of and information relating to key organisations with which you work in partnership: Our Partnerships.
• Meetings with pharmaceutical companies and other medical suppliers: Please request this information.
• Senior executives and management board or governing body members: Board of Directors.
• Location and contact details for all public-facing departments: Contact us and Our Services.

What we spend and how we spend it

• Financial statements, budgets and variance reports: Finance.
• Financial audit reports: Please request this information.
• Capital programme: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Staff and board members’ allowances and expenses: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Staff pay and grading structures: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Funding (including endowment funds and charitable donations): Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Trade Union (TU) facility time: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Procurement and tendering procedures: Please request this information.
• Details of contracts currently being tendered: Please request the information from the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative tender portal.
• List and value of contracts awarded: Please request this information.

What our priorities are and how we are doing

• Annual report: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Annual business or commissioning plan: Please request this information.
• Targets, aims and objectives: Our Strategy.
• Strategic direction document (five-year plan): Our Strategy.
• Performance against targets (KPI), performance framework, performance management information, quality improvement plans: Quality and Performance.
• Reports by regulatory organisations, eg Care Quality Commission and NHS England: Quality and Performance.
• Audit reports delivered at board or governing body level: Quality and Performance.
• Clinical strategy, if applicable: Our Care Service Plans.
• Service user surveys: Quality and Performance.
• Data protection impact assessments (in full or summary format) or any other impact assessment {eg health and safety impact assessments, equality impact assessments), as appropriate and relevant: Please request this information.

How we make decisions

• Board papers – agenda, supporting papers and minutes: Board of Directors Meetings.
• Patient and public engagement strategy: Patient and Carer Strategy.
• Public consultations {for example, concerning closures or variations of services): Please request this information.
• Internal communications guidance and criteria used for decision making, ie process systems and key personnel: Please request this information.

Our policies and procedures

• Policies and procedures relating to conducting business and the provision of services: Please request this information.
  • C-0021 Procedure for the positive and safe support for people who may present with behaviour that challenges.
• Policies and procedures relating to human resources including recruitment and employment policies: Please request this information.
• Equality and diversity policies: Please request this information.
• Health and safety: Please request this information.
• Clinical research transparency standards
  and research ethics committees’ standard operating procedures: Research – About us.
• Pay policy statement: Please request this information.
• Standing financial procedures or instructions: Please request this information.
• Standing orders: Please request this information.
• Customer service and complaints policies and procedures: Complaints and comments.
• Data protection and duty of confidentiality, records management, Caldicott Guardian: How we use information about you.
• Estate management: Please request this information.
• Charging regimes and policies: Please request this information.

Lists and registers

• Any information you are currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers: Please request this information.
• List of main contractors or suppliers: Please request this information.
• Asset registers: Annual Report via the Annual Review page.
• Information asset register: We do not seek to recover cost or limit onward disclosure under the Regulations.
• CCTV: Please request this information.
• Any register of interests kept in the authority: Corporate Governance.
• Register of gifts and hospitality provided to board members and senior personnel: Corporate Governance.
• Disclosure log: Please request this information.

The services we offer

• Clinical services provided or commissioned: Our Services.
• Non-clinical services: Contact us.
• Services for which you are entitled to recover a fee together with those fees: Please request this information.
• Patient support groups, including bereavement support: Our Services.
• Patient information leaflets and other booklets and newsletters: Please request this information.
• Patient advice and liaison service (PALS): PALS.
• Advice and guidance: Advice and Support.
• Corporate communications and media releases: News. Events and Blogs.