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STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES IN
RESPECT OF THE QUALITY REPORT

The directors are required under the Health Act 2009 • the performance information reported in the Quality
and the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Report is reliable and accurate
Regulations to prepare Quality Accounts for each
• there are proper internal controls over the collection
financial year.
and reporting of the measures of performance
included in the Quality Report, and these controls
NHS Improvement has issued guidance to NHS
are subject to review to confirm that they are working
foundation trust boards on the form and content of
effectively in practice
annual quality reports (which incorporate the above
legal requirements) and on the arrangements that NHS • the data underpinning the measures of performance
foundation trust boards should put in place to support reported in the Quality Report is robust and reliable,
the data quality for the preparation of the quality report. conforms to specified data quality standards and
prescribed definitions, is subject to appropriate
In preparing the Quality Report, directors are required scrutiny and review and the Quality Report has been
to take steps to satisfy themselves that: prepared in accordance with NHS Improvement’s
annual reporting manual and supporting guidance
• the content of the Quality Report meets the
(which incorporates the Quality Accounts regulations)
requirements set out in the NHS foundation trust
as well as the standards to support data quality for
Annual Reporting Manual 2017/18 and supporting
the preparation of the Quality Report.
guidance
• the content of the Quality Report is not inconsistent The directors confirm to the best of their knowledge
with internal and external sources of information and belief they have complied with the above
including: requirements in preparing the Quality Report.

- board minutes and papers for the period April 2017
By order of the Board.
to March 2018
- papers relating to quality reported to the board over
the period April 2017 to March 2018 David Henshaw Louise Shepherd
- feedback from commissioners dated 23rd May 2018 SIR DAVID HENSHAW LOUISE SHEPHERD CBE
Chairman Chief Executive
- feedback from governors dated 17th and 18th
May 2018
22nd May 2018
- feedback from local Healthwatch organisations
dated 11th and 23rd May 2018
- feedback from Overview and Scrutiny Committee
dated – none received at the time of publication
- the Trust’s complaints report published under
regulation 18 of the Local Authority Social Services
and NHS Complaints Regulations 2009, dated
05/09/17, 05/12/17, 06/03/18 and 16/05/18 (four
quarterly reports)

- the 2017 national patient survey
- the 2017 national staff survey dated 6th March 2018
- the Head of Internal Audit’s annual opinion of the
trust’s control environment dated April 2018
- CQC inspection report dated October 2017
• the Quality Report presents a balanced picture of the
NHS foundation trust’s performance over the period
covered

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