Key areas
Click on the links below for more on these key areas. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can make a Freedom of Information request.
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For information about our structure, our Board, key documents, constitutional and legal governance, and background information about how we fit within the NHS, see the links below.
- About us.
- Our constitution – a key governance document that we must abide by, including membership, the Council of Governors and Board of Directors.
- Our Board – including the register of Board members’ private interests and how our management structure is organised. The Board is responsible for managing how the Trust operates.
- Our safer staffing levels.
- Council of Governors – we have public, staff and appointed Governors.
- Better Lives charity – the official charity of Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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For financial information on projected and actual income and expenditure, tendering, procurement and contracts, see below:
- The annual report and accounts – for previous years.
- The expenditure reports for our Trust board – for previous years.
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For information about our strategy, performance, plans, assessments, inspections and reviews, see below.
- Quality of patient environment – see our PLACE results.
- Performance reports – see our Board papers for the latest reports.
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For information about our policies, decision-making processes and consultations, see below:
- Our Board.
- Board sub-committees.
- Public consultations – we have a duty to ask for your views if our proposals or decisions will affect your services, or how your service works; the legal duty is under section 242 (1b) of the NHS Act 2006. Currently we have no public consultations.
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We have written protocols for delivering our activity and responsibilities and these are outlined in policies and procedures.
If you would like to request a policy or strategy for one of the following services or areas, please make a Freedom of Information request:
- Clinical policies, procedures and strategies.
- Communications policies and strategies.
- Estates and facilities policies and strategies.
- Finance policies and strategies.
- Human resources policies and strategies.
- Learning from deaths policy.
- Patient Safety and Duty of Candour Policies and Patient Safety Incident Response Plan
- Mental Health Act policies and strategies.
- Quality and governance policies, procedures and strategies.
- Our information governance and records management and IT policies and strategies.
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See below for information held in registers that are required by law, and other lists and registers about the functions of the authority:
- The registers of Board members and Council of Governors’ private interests.
- Declarations of interest register – these may include gifts, hospitality, outside employment, clinical private practice and donations.
For information about how we make decisions, see our Trust Board and its decision making groups.
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See about us for an overview of our Trust, or see our services for detailed information about individual services.
For latest news and updates on services see news.