Our work as a Foundation Trust
St George’s was authorised by Monitor to become a Foundation Trust on 2 February 2015.
Becoming a Foundation Trust was a crucial step in achieving our vision to be recognised as an excellent integrated acute and community care provider and a comprehensive specialist health provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond with thriving programmes of education and research.
It means greater involvement for staff, patients and members of the local community in how our healthcare is provided which will bring lasting improvements to our services and better health for communities.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust NHS Foundation Trust licence
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Trust – authorisation letter
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust NHS Foundation Trust authorisation document
St Georges University Hospitals NHS FoundationTrust Constitution – 10 03 15
NHS Foundation Trusts – Self Certification
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 introduced the concept of a Licence for providers of NHS services, and the NHS Provider Licence was subsequently introduced in February 2013. Foundation Trusts were licensed from April 2013, with other providers being licensed from April 2014, but it was later confirmed that the Licence would not apply to NHS Trusts.
In April 2017, NHS Improvement (NHSI) confirmed that NHS Trusts must undertake a self-certification against the NHS Provider Licence, on the basis that, despite their exemption, directions from the Secretary of State required NHSI to ensure that NHS Trusts complied with conditions equivalent to the Licence, as it deemed appropriate. As NHSI’s Single Oversight Framework (SOF) bases its oversight on the Licence, NHS Trusts are therefore legally subject to the equivalent of certain Provider Licence conditions, and must self-certify under these licence provisions.
The Trust Board approved the Trust’s annual self-certification of compliance with its provider licence at its meeting on 30 May 2019. The information the Board took into account as part of the self-certification can be accessed via the agenda item 4.3 of the Board meeting on 30 May 2019.
