What will be made public

Liverpool Primary Care Trust is required to make available certain corporate information to the public. The majority of this information should already be available on our public website.

 We would expect to publish information unless:

• We do not hold the information
• The information is exempt under one of the FOI or EIR exemptions or EIR
• The information is archived, out of date or otherwise inaccessible
• It would be impractical or resource-intensive to prepare the material for routine release

The types of information that will be made available on the site or by request include:

Who we are and what we do

• How we fit into the NHS structure
• Organisational structure
• Lists of and information relating to organisations with which the authority works in partnership
• What we spend and how we spend it
• Annual statement of accounts
• Budgets and variance reports
• Financial audit reports
• Standing financial instructions
• Capital programme
• Staff and Board members’ allowances and expenses
• Staff pay and grading structures
• Funding (including endowment funds)
• Procurement and tendering procedures
• Details of contracts currently being tendered
• What are our priorities and how are we doing
• Annual Report
• Annual business plan
• Targets, aims and objectives
• Strategic direction document (five year plan)
• Performance against targets (KPI)/performance framework
• Clinical governance
• Healthcare Commission – Annual check
• Audit reports
• Service user surveys

How we make decisions

• Board papers – agenda, supporting papers and minutes
• Patient and public involvement strategy (PPI)
• Public consultations (for example, concerning closures/variations of services)

Our policies and procedures

• Policies and procedures relating to the conduct of business and the provision of services
• Policies and procedures relating to human resources (including Race, Disability, Age and Gender, Equal Opportunities)
• Policies and procedures relating to recruitment and employment
• Standing financial procedures
• Standing orders
• Complaints and other customer service policies and procedures
• Data protection/information governance/Caldicott Guardian
• Estate management

List and registers 

• Any information we are currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers
• Assets registers and Information Asset Register
• Any register of interests kept in the authority
• Register of Gifts and Hospitality provided to Board members and senior personnel
• Disclosure Log  (Previous disclosures made following requests for Information)

For details about making requests click here

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