Members’ council objectives 2018 – 20
At its meeting on 2 November 2018, the members’ council agreed their refreshed objectives for 2018-20 as follows:
- Fulfil and comply with statutory duties (see below)
- Contribute to the induction of new members
- Use connections to promote the Trust and its services
- Provide support to improve the engagement and involvement of members
- Contribute to the Trust’s governance and assurance processes to improve the quality of its services
- Promote the role of the members’ council to staff and ensure the view/feelings of staff are communicated
- Inform the preparation of the Trust’s forward plan
- Engage in wider partnership working
Statutory duties:
- To appoint and, if appropriate, remove the chair
- To appoint and, if appropriate, remove the other non-executive directors
- To decide the remuneration and allowances and other terms and conditions of office of the chair and other non-executive directors
- To approve (or not) any new appointment of a chief executive
- To appoint and, if appropriate, remove the NHS Foundation Trust’s auditor
- To receive the NHS Foundation Trust’s annual accounts, any report of the auditor on them, and the annual report at a general meeting of the council of governors
- To hold the non-executive directors, individually and collectively, to account for the performance of the board of directors
- To represent the interests of the members of the trust as a whole and the interests of the public
- To approve “significant transactions”
- To approve an application by the trust to enter into a merger, acquisition, separation or dissolution
- To decide whether the trust’s non-NHS work would significantly interfere with its principal purpose, which is to provide goods and services for the health service in England, or performing its other functions
- To approve amendments to the Trust’s constitution
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