Safer, better, good value care

Support your Royal Cornwall Hospitals and be a part of our future...

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - West Cornwall Hospital, St Michael's Hospital and Royal Cornwall Hospital - need your support to become an NHS Foundation Trust.

Being an NHS Foundation Trust would give our staff and community greater freedom and control over the way services are run.

Financially it enables us to keep surpluses to invest in new and improved services.

NHS Foundation Trusts are still part of the NHS and provide free healthcare.

Our Foundation Trust Consultation

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Foundation Trust consultation concluded on 27th November 2011. In response to the views heard the Board of Directors decided to increase the size and make-up of the Council of Governors from 16 to 20 people. This will include 2 extra staff governors and 2 extra public governors. The Council of Governors is the key representative group of public and staff who will hold the Board of Directors to account and help set the overall strategic direction of RCHT when we become an NHS Foundation Trust.

For more information about our NHS Foundation Trust consultation and application you can read our consultation document| and our final report |on the consultation.

Become a member

To become an NHS Foundation Trust we need to sign-up lots of members. Anyone can be a member if they are aged 11 or over.

Our members can vote for the Council of Governors or stand as a Governor. How involved you are is up to you.

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As a member you will:

• have a say in what we do
• be helping to keep our hospitals under local control
• receive invitations to free 'members only' events
• receive regular newsletters
• save money with the NHS discount scheme.

Email us:
rcht.membership@cornwall.nhs.uk|

Website:

Write to:
RCHT Membership Office
Bedruthan House
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Truro
TR1 3LJ

For more information about Foundation Trusts and what involvement you can have visit the Monitor website |.