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Attendance at Council of Number of Meetings Membership Strategy
Governors by Board Members Held in 2017/18
The Trust’s Membership Strategy remained in place
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during the year and its implementation is owned and
Sir David Henshaw 4 led by a committee of the Council of Governors called
Ian Quinlan 0 the Membership Strategy Committee. During 2017/18
the Committee was chaired by one of our public
Steve Igoe 3
governors, Kate Jackson who is also Lead Governor.
Anita Marsland 2 The terms of reference of the Committee were
Claire Dove 3 approved by the Council of Governors to undertake the
following:
Jeannie France-Hayhurst 0
• Devise a Membership Development Strategy on
Jo Williams 4
behalf of the Council, which describes clearly the
Louise Shepherd 3 processes by which the Trust will develop as a
Margaret Barnaby 4 membership organisation.
John Grinnell 4 • Ensure that regular analysis of the existing
Melissa Swindell 4 membership is undertaken to inform recruitment
of new members, ensuring that the membership
Steve Ryan 3
remains representative of the communities served by
Hilda Gwilliams 0 the Trust.
Erica Saunders 4
• Devise a system of effective communication with
David Powell 4 the wider membership so that members are actively
Mark Flanagan 1/3 engaged with activities such as elections.
Declaration of Interests • Develop and implement appropriate monitoring
systems to evaluate the membership strategy in
terms of openness, diversity, representativeness and
A copy of the Council’s Register of Interests is available
on request from Erica Saunders, Director of Corporate sustainability.
Affairs via the Executive Office on 0151 282 4672 or by • Engage with other membership based organisations
email at membership@alderhey.nhs.uk. on best practice recruitment and communication to
determine if there is transferability to the Trust.
OUR MEMBERSHIP
The Membership Strategy Committee is supported
It is important to us that membership is relevant to all by the Trust’s Communications Team and works to an
sections of the communities we serve and we continue agreed set of objectives created to reflect the overall
to make every effort to reach all groups within our aims of the Membership Strategy. The objectives for
membership constituencies. We seek to ensure that our 2017/18 were a consolidation of work commenced
membership reflects the social and cultural mix of our in the previous year, given the ongoing nature of the
catchment population. We also need to ensure that our governors’ role around communication.
Council of Governors reflects our membership and we • Newsletter - to continue on a quarterly basis.
aim to address this challenge by encouraging a large,
genuine membership from all areas served by the Trust. • Membership Recruitment - the Committee agreed
to undertake a focused recruitment drive to seek new
Alder Hey has three broad membership constituencies: members in the 7 to 16 age group; this was done with
public, patients and staff. Within these there are the help of Trust Volunteers.
different classes, each of which has at least one
• Training - as many Governors as possible to attend
governor representing them. The wide geographical
GovernWell events to support efforts in respect of
basis for the public constituencies is derived from the
member engagement; a number of governors also
Trust’s patient footprint, since we are also a supra-
attended on site social media training.
regional centre which means that patients from all
over the country (and the world!) are referred to us • Annual Members’ meetings - the Committee
for treatment. In addition, a specific class for parents also acts as a steering group for the planning and
and carers reflects the vital role played by individuals organisation of the Annual Members’ meeting, the
who support and care for our patients. Membership theme of which for 2017 was the ‘Medical Director’s
is open to anyone over the age of seven who lives in Tale’, as well as the delivery of the statutory elements.
the electoral wards specified. Once a patient reaches In the coming years, consideration will be given to
20 years of age they are required to transfer to the reinstating Trust Open Days within the new facilities.
public or parent and carer category, whichever is most
applicable.

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