Publication Scheme :: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

The Freedom of Information Act gives members of the public certain rights to access information created and held by the Trust. Under the Act, public authorities such as East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust have two main duties:

to respond to written requests from members of the public for information held by the authority
to maintain a Publication Scheme

Our Publication Scheme has been available since October 2003 and ensures any information routinely published by the Trust is readily available.

The purpose of the Act is to encourage a more open culture in the public sector and to give the public access to the information created by public authorities in their day-to-day decision making.

Declarations of Interest, Gifts and Hospitality

As a publicly funded NHS hospital provider, the Trust has a duty to ensure that all decisions, especially those involving how we spend public money, are made in an open and honest way. This includes the way in which we buy goods and services.

To support this, we ask certain employees to declare any personal or professional interests that could affect, or appear to affect, their decision-making.

These are recorded in our Declarations of Interest Register, which we publish so that the public can see we are working fairly and transparently.

All colleagues in ‘decision-making’ roles – defined in our Trust as those paid at Band 8b and above and anyone working in procurement or finance must complete a declaration. Others may also need to make a declaration depending on their responsibilities, following the published NHS England guidance https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/managing-conflicts-of-interest-in-the-nhs-guidance-for-staff-and-organisations/.

You can use these registers to see which colleagues have declared interests and what those interests are. This helps make sure that our work continues to meet the highest standards of integrity, accountability and public trust.

View the Declarations of Interest, Gifts and Hospitality registers here.

Main Contractors/Suppliers

Ranking	Supplier Name
1	Consort Healthcare
2	NHS Supply Chain
3	Rowlands Pharmacy
4	Healthcare At Home Ltd
5	Community Health Partnerships
6	Spc Ltd
7	Medtronic Ltd
8	Aah Pharmaceuticals Ltd Hills
9	Roche Products Ltd
10	Alliance Healthcare

Land and Building Asset Register

This can be viewed here.

Capital Assets Register

This is currently being updated.

Information Assets Register

Please email ig-issues@elht.nhs.uk

CCTV Locations

Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

internally at entrances/exits, lifts, public hospital corridors, canteen area
externally at car parks, hospital grounds and hospital buildings

Burnley General Teaching Hospital

internally at entrances/exits, public hospital corridors, canteen area, Lancashire Women and New born Centre
externally at car parks, hospital grounds and hospital buildings

Clitheroe Community Hospital

internally at entrances/exits, public hospital corridors, externally at car parks, hospital grounds and hospital buildings

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1.	Trust Board meetings and papers	Click Here
2.	Strategic framework - Our vision and values	Click Here
3.	Annual Report and Accounts	Click Here
4.	Clinical Strategy	Click Here
5.	Hospitals and locations	Click Here
6.	Services	Click Here
7.	Senior management teams/structures	Board structure
		Senior management structure
		Senior nursing structure
		Medical and Emergency Care Structure
		Community Services and Intermediate Care structure
		Family Care
		Surgical and Anaesthetics structure
		Diagnostics and Clinical Support structure
		Estates and Facilities
		HR and Organisational Development
8.	Key Organisations With Which We Work in Partnership	Blackburn with Darwen Council Lancashire County Council NHS Property Services Ltd Blackburn College Nelson and Colne College University of Central Lancashire Health Education North West Mersey Internal Audit Agency Grant Thornton Audit and Assurance Service NHS Improvement NHS England Care Quality Commission Consort/Balfour Beatty (PFI Partner) Cofley GDF Suez/ Engie (Facilities and integrated services PFI) Healthwatch Lancashire Healthwatch Blackburn with Darwen Health Innovation Manchester Greater Manchester Local Clinical Research Network
9.	Information and Leaflets for Patients	Patients Web Section Leaflet Register
10.	Patient, Family and Carers Experience Strategy	Click Here

01.	Financial statements, budgets and variance reports	These are published in our Annual Report
02.	Monthly Expenditure Over £25,000	Click here
03.	Financial Audit reports	Click Here
04.	Capital programme	Click Here
05.	Annual budget	This is published in our Annual Report
06.	Board member allowances and expenses	These are published in our Annual Report
07.	Senior staff allowances and expenses	These are published in our Annual Report
08.	Annual accounts	These are published in our Annual Report
09.	Policy on allowances and expenses	Travel and vehicle expenses policy
10.	Staff pay and grading structures	Annual Report Pay scales Agency and bank staffing
11.	Funding/income	This detail is published in our Annual Report
12.	Charitable funds	Charitable Funds Annual Report
13.	Procurement and tendering processes	East Lancashire Procurement Onsite Management of Suppliers
14.	Details of contracts currently being tendered
15.	Standing financial instructions	Click Here
16.	Standing Orders	Click Here

01.	Annual Report	Click Here
02.	Quality Account	Click Here
03.	Annual Accounts	Click Here
04.	Business Plan
05.	Clinical Strategy	Click Here
06.	Progress reports to Trust Board	Click Here
07.	What our regulators say about us	Click Here
08.	Audit Committee Summary Report delivered at the Trust Board	Click Here
09.	Service users opinions	Friends and Family Test

01.	Trust Board papers	Click Here
02.	Patient and public engagement strategy	There are no ongoing public consultations in relation to the Trust at this point
03.	Public consultations	Governance Handbook (awaiting update)
04.	Committee Handbook	Governance Handbook awaiting update)
05.	Internal guidance	Business Case Finance Template Business Case Template Outline Business Case

Publication Scheme

Section 1: Who we are and what we do

Section 2: What we spend and how we spend it

Section 3: What our priorities are and how we are doing

Section 4: How we make decisions

Section 5: Our policies and procedures

Section 6: Lists and Registers