Board committees

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust has five main board committees:

Audit committee

Chair – Harmesh Darbhanga

Key roles:

• Overview of risk management processes to ensure that they are comprehensive and fit for purpose, taking an integrated view combining clinical and non‐clinical factors
• Maximising the contribution made by internal audit
• Ensuring that a whistle blowing policy is in place
• Scrutiny of annual accounts
• Management of the relationship with external auditors

Quality & safety committee

Chair ‐ Jill Barker

Key roles:

• Monitoring progress on the Trust’s quality improvement plan
• Review of clinical risk management and assurance control system, including of other committees engaged in clinical quality or safety activities
• Commissioning and monitoring evidence of the patient experience, including complaints
• Monitoring of the Trust’s systems for serious untoward incidents
• Scrutiny of the Trust’s quality accounts
• Monitoring the effectiveness of clinical auditA Clinical Advisory Board will report to this Committee. The Advisory Board will be chaired by the Medical Director to the Trust Board. A key role of the Advisory Board will be to provide assurance to the Trust Board on professional standards within the organisation.

Resources and performance committee - (including Business Risk and Investment)

Chair – Peter Featherstone

Key roles:

• Review of financial control systems
• Monitoring achievement of Cost Improvement Programmes
• Review of performance systems
• Review of business risk management, including markets and competition, reputation, business continuity, information security, workforce and performance
• Review of business cases
• Review of capital investment programme and make recommendations to the Board on prioritisation
• Review of procedures for investment of surplus working capital
• Review and management of the investment of charitable funds

A Charitable Funds Sub‐Committee will report to this committee.

Nomination & remuneration committee

Chair – Tina Long

Key roles will be:

• Succession planning and development of Trust senior managers
• Overseeing the appointment of Executive Directors
• Approving remuneration of Executive Directors

People Committee

Chair - Cathy Purt