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Members Newsletter November 2009 |
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Written by FT Team
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Monday, 11 January 2010 13:19 |
Welcome to our first edition of Members’ Matters, our quarterly magazine written exclusively for our members.
First of all, I would like to thank you for signing up to be a member. Your support is really important to us – we currently have over 4,500 public members which, including our staff and volunteers, brings our number up to around 8,500.
Members Matters (Nov 09)
- Our New Look
- Improving Maternity Services
- Introducing Dr Fluck
- Ensuring Privacy and Dignity
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So where are we in our journey to becoming a Foundation Trust?
We have now had an important Board to Board meeting with the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority. This was our opportunity to formally present our business plans for the next five years, and they need to be confident that our plans are sensible, affordable and in the best interests of our patients. We have a further meeting with them at the end of February after which we hope they will be recommending our application to the Secretary of State for Health. This will be followed by a thorough assessment process by Monitor, the independent regulator of Foundation Trusts before we can be finally licensed as a Foundation Trust.
We hope you enjoy this first edition of Members’ Matters. We very much want the content of this magazine to be driven by you, so please take a moment to let us know what you think - see page 8 for details.
Aileen McLeish
Chairman
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Last Updated ( Monday, 11 January 2010 13:54 )
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