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. List of FTs which have membership open to anyone in England.
- Benenden Healthcare Society
- Building on shaky foundations. Rathfelder, Martin and Lane, Pauleen 2004
- Catalyst Foundation Trusts briefing
- Department of Health official page
- Espriu Foundation
- Failure regime proposals Sept 2011
- First wave of NHS foundation trusts BMJ June 2004
- Foundation Hospitals: a new direction for NHS reform. Kieran Walshe
- Foundation Hospitals & The Health Service Reforms: Imaginative Idea or Disaster in the Making? Conference 2003
- Foundation Trust Governors’ Association
- Foundation Trust Network
- Foundation Trusts, Democracy and Public Ownership Conference 2010
- 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
- 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
- Membership Governance in NHS Foundation Trusts review July 2008
- A Modern Agenda for Prosperity and Social Reform Gordon Brown Feb 2003
- Monitor
- The Mutual Health Service - Ed Mayo and Ruth Lea (pdf file)
- Mutuality and the governance of foundation trusts June 2003
- NHS System Reform: foundation trusts
- 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