Foundation Trust members elect the Governors, and the Governors appoint appoint (and can dismiss) non executive directors to the board of the Trust. Foundation Trusts are public benefit corporations. Governors hold the non executive directors to account for the performance of the trust on behalf of the members. In theory.
You can become a member of your local trust and support socialist candidates. As the NHS comes under pressure this may become an important battleground.
All these trusts have a membership category for “The rest of England” (and sometimes Wales), so anyone with an address in England can join. It doesn’t cost anything.
- Aintree University Hospitals
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Basingstoke and North Hampshire
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health
- Bolton
- Calderstones Partnership
- Cambridge University Hospitals
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
- Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
- East Kent Hospitals University
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
- Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Manchester University Hospitals
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- North East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Stockport
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
- Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust