Foundation Hospitals

This page is intended to guide you to relevant information, both for and against the idea. We don't necessarily endorse all these sites.

NHS Foundation Trusts Department of Health official homepage, which contains, among other things, links to the websites of all the existing and proposed Foundation Trusts.

• Benenden Healthcare Society
• BMA Statement on Foundation Hospitals Jan 2003
• Building on shaky foundations. Rathfelder, Martin and Lane, Pauleen 2004
• Catalyst Foundation Trusts briefing
• Department of Health official page
• Espriu Foundation
• First wave of NHS foundation trusts BMJ June 2004
• Foundation Hospitals: a new direction for NHS reform. Kieran Walshe
• Foundation Trust Network
• Geraint Day's letter to Socialism & Health August 2003
• Good Foundations - Geraint Day
• Governance of Foundation Trusts: Dilemmas of Diversity Nuffield
• Governing Foundation Trusts A new era for public accountability Richard Lewis
• Greenwich Leisure Limited (much quoted as an example of a democratically controlled successful service provider)
• Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003
• Health Select Committee Report on Foundation Hospitals May 2003 - Government response
• The Healthcare Commission’s review of NHS foundation trusts 2005
• Heaton & Lostock Labour Party discussions 2003
• Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts
• Independent sector treatment centres
• Keep the NHS public Unison campaign against Foundation Hospitals
• Keep your nerve: this is the rebirth of popular socialism Ian McCartney November 2002
• Labour Party Health Commission reports
• Localism: From Rhetoric to Reality: Speech by Alan Milburn 5/2/03
• A Modern Agenda for Prosperity and Social Reform Gordon Brown Feb 2003
• Monitor
• The Mutual Health Service - Ed Mayo and Ruth Lea (40 page pdf file)
• Mutuality and the governance of foundation trusts June 2003
• NHS Foundation Trust Governors Survey
• NHS System Reform: foundation trusts
• Reconciling Equity and Choice? Foundation Hospitals and the future of the NHS John Mohan
• Resolutions put to Labour Party Conference 2003
  
• Health Select Committee evidence on Foundation Hospitals
• SHA Policy Statement on Foundation Hospitals
• SHA Seminar on Foundation Hospitals May 2003
• Shaping the Foundations Feb 2004
• Without foundation: Angela Eagle
• Shifting the Balance of Responsibility - article by Judith Blakeman in Socialism and Health February 2003
• Milburn's trip to Spain
• Unison position
• What foundation trusts mean for the NHS. Sean Boyle 2006
• Clive Wilkinson Presentation on Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust June 2008

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