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Statutory documentation

We publish various annual reports and accounts that give an overview of the year and set out ways for us to continually improve.

The Trust is obligated to publish various documents which show you how we are doing. They also set out ways for us to continue to develop and improve. On this page you will find the Strategic Plan, Operational Plan, Annual Report and Accounts, Quality Account as well as the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Constitution. We also publish a report of our spending over £25,000 for every month. This can be found on the Statutory financial information page.

Annual Members’ Meeting 2024

This year’s Annual Members’ Meeting of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust was held on Tuesday 17 September 2024 from 5pm until 6:15pm at Trust Headquarters, Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road, Harrogate, HG2 7SX.

The meeting was also live-streamed and a recording of the proceedings can be found here:

https://youtu.be/h-iZ9-tCnG0?feature=shared

The following business was considered at the Annual Members’ Meeting:

  • Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24

And the following items were received:

Copies of the agenda and the Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24 are available here.

For further information, please contact the Foundation Trust Membership Office by email at [email protected].

Strategic Plan 2014-2019

Operational Plan

2018-19 to 2019-20

Annual Report and Accounts

2023-2024

2022-2023

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-2016

2014-2015

2013-2014

Trust Constitution

Scheme of Delegation

NHS Provider Licence Annual Self-assessment

NHS Foundation Trusts are required to self-certify annually whether or not they have complied with the conditions of the NHS provider licence. In addition, NHS England (NHSE) requires the Trust to make a number of governance declarations which are certified by the Board of Directors. For 2024, these Compliance Declarations were approved at the Trust Board meeting held in public on 29 May 2024 and can be found below.

Annual Self Assessment Declarations 2024 

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Annual Statement

Please click here to download the Trust’s Annual Statement.

Patient and Public Participation Strategy

The ambition of our Patient and Public Participation Strategy is to put the people who use our services, wherever they are, at the heart of decision making. Whatever the level of participation, listening to and acting on what people using our services want will help achieve our vision of delivering ‘Excellence Every Time’. Click here to read the strategy, for 2018/21, in full.

West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT)

As members of WYAAT our shared vision is to provide an efficient and sustainable healthcare system across the region that uses innovation and best practice for the benefit of patients. The time we spend working together across our trusts has grown substantially to the extent that we all now view WYAAT as part of our everyday business. We exist as a group because we know it is helping us deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our patients and populations. Read about the progress and achievements of West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) in 2018-19 here.

Quality Account

The Quality Account is an annual report, which reviews our performance and progress against the quality of services we provided in 2023 – 2024 and sets out our key quality and safety improvement priorities for 2024 – 2025. It demonstrates our commitment to continue improving our services and provide high quality, safe and effective care to our patients, their carers and their families. This means that it is essential that we focus on the right quality and safety priorities for the forthcoming year. Click here to read our Quality Account 2023-2024

Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Scheme

The CQUIN scheme is intended to deliver clinical quality improvements and drive transformational change. These will impact on reducing inequalities in access to services, the experiences of using them and the outcomes achieved. See NHS England » Commissioning for Quality and Innovation for more information and detail of the national schemes.

For 2017/19 the national CQUIN scheme will be followed.

The 2016/17 scheme for HDFT agreed with the Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group was a variation of the national scheme, and designed to support local transformation. The indicators were:

  1. Improved integration of providers along the End of Life Care pathway
  2. Promote a system of timely identification and proactive management of frailty in community locality teams
  3. Timely identification and treatment for sepsis in emergency departments
  4. Timely identification and treatment for sepsis in inpatient settings
  5. Improved compliance with CCG clinical threshold documents and procedures of limited clinical value guidance for consultant to consultant and other internally generated demand
  6. Increased usage of decision aids in secondary and community care.

The 2016/17 scheme for HDFT in relation to the contract with NHS England included the following indicators:

  1. Specialist Commissioning QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention)
  2. Specialist Commissioning SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy)
  3. Specialist Commissioning annual report of data completeness for NNAP (national neonatal audit programme) questions
  4. Secondary care for orthodontic treatment
  5. Public health – Armed Forces
  6. Public health – Health inequalities

Gender Pay Gap at the Trust and Harrogate Integrated Facilities (wholly owned subsidiary)

In accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017, employers with 250 or more employees are required to publish information on the pay gap between male and female employees as at 31 March each year.  This information must be published on the employer’s website (and must remain on the website for a minimum of three years) to be accessible to both employees and the public.

The gender pay gap is different to equal pay.  Equal pay means that men and women in the same employment who are performing equal work must receive equal pay, as set out in the Equality Act 2010.  It is unlawful to pay people unequally because they are a man or a woman.

Click here to download the Trust’s report  relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2023.

Click here to download the Trust’s report and click here to download the report for HIF, both relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2022.

Click here to download the Trust’s report and click here to download the report for HIF, both relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2021.

Click here to download the Trust’s report and click here to download the report for HIF, both relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2020.

Click here to download the Trust’s report and click here to download the report for HIF, both relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2019.

Click here to download the Trust’s report and click here to download the report for HIF, both relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2018.

Click here to download the Trust’s report relating to a snapshot date of pay at 31 March 2017.

Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017

On 1 April 2017, the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 came into force. The Regulations require the Trust, as an NHS body, to collate and publish on an annual basis, a range of data on the amount and cost of ‘facility time’ within the organisation. Facility Time is the provision of paid or unpaid time off from an employee’s normal role to undertake Trade Union duties and activities as a Trade Union representative. Click here to download the latest report.

Learning from Deaths Policy

The Trust is required by the Department of Health to publish its Learning From Deaths Policy. Click here to download it.

Click here to read our latest Learning from Deaths report.