Bradford LINk
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Key Issues
Click a Key Issue below to find out more:
- Access to Information
- Access to GPs and Primary Health Care
- Adult Mental Health Services
- Advocacy
- Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
- Annual Health Check
- Foundation Trusts
- Keighley Health and Wellbeing Consultation
- Older People and Access to Counselling and Therapy Services
- Personalisation
Foundation Trusts
A Foundation Trust is free from Government control and manages its own affairs. Local organisations and communities make the big decisions for a Foundation Trust. Anyone can be a member and have a say on how services are run and provided.
Three of the four NHS Trusts in the Bradford district are Foundation Trusts or are applying to become a Foundation Trust.
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Airedale NHS Trust are both Foundation Trusts.
- Bradford District Care Trust is applying to become a Foundation Trust. It hopes to achieve this by Summer 2010.
- Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) is not a Foundation Trust.
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forums used to keep an eye on what hospitals and Foundation Trusts were doing. Now the PPI forums no longer exist, Bradford LINk is looking at ways to develop a relationship with Foundation Trusts in the area. A work group has been set up to look at ways of doing this.
To find out more email melvyn@bradfordlink.org.uk or call us on 01535 665258