MEMBERS of the public and other stakeholders have been helping to shape the future of Lincolnshire’s largest community healthcare provider.
More than 650 people had their say at 20 public consultation events across the county in response to how Lincolnshire Community health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) should be governed through local communities.
The consultation formed a crucial part of the trust’s ambitions to achieve Community Foundation Trust status by April.
Three questions were put to the public and stakeholder groups to ask whether they agreed with LCHS’s service delivery priorities, proposals for membership and proposals for governance.
As a direct result, the Trust Board has approved recommendations to:
Reduce the minimum age for trust membership from 16 to 12 years
To have one Lincolnshire public constituency
To increase the appointed governors from six to eight, including two representatives from Lincolnshire County Council and two representatives from district councils
To increase the number of staff governors from clinical front line services.
Elections to create a Council of Governors will take place later this year.