Governance in NHS Foundation Trusts: Insights from Company Secretaries

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Author(s): Robert Nesbitt (Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, UK)and Amr Kotb (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia & Cairo University, Egypt)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 21
Source title: Global Perspectives on Risk Management and Accounting in the Public Sector
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Augusta da Conceição Santos Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Jonas da Silva Oliveira (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal)and Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9803-1.ch009

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Public and Sector Management / Risk Management & Analysis

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Abstract

NHS Foundation Trusts (FTs) came into existence in 2004 as part of a suite of system reforms that reintroduced a healthcare market in England. Over the last decade over half of the 265 English NHS Trusts have made the transition to FT status and to a new form of corporate governance that is accountable to locally elected governors. Whilst research into the governance arrangements for these new entities has explored several theoretical frameworks, no model has satisfactorily explained the rationale for the adoption of a commercial governance code underpinned by a democratic accountability process. In this chapter, the authors draw on insights of FT company secretaries, through a series of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, to explore alternative governance models and to make recommendations that might improve the functioning of elected governors within FTs.

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