What are the benefits?
We believe that there will be long-term benefits for patients, the public and staff.
These benefits might be:
- For the public and patients: the opportunity to be involved in the development of the hospital.
- For staff: All employees automatically become members of the foundation trust and are able to select staff members on to the Governors' Council.
- For local partner organisations: the opportunity to sit on the Governors' Council of and help develop local services that are co-ordinated and responsive to patient needs
For Sheffield Teaching Hospitals it gives the opportunity to:
- Involve our patients, public and staff in the running of the organisation;
- Develop a wider range of services that look at new ways of treating and benefiting patients;
- Play a bigger role in the regeneration of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area.
Overall, it puts us in a stronger position to improve services at the hospitals and ensure they are designed around the needs of our local patients and public. However, it can only work with your input.
