Quality Committee

Chair: Maggie Arnold, Non-Executive Director

The purpose of the Committee is to rigorously keep under review all aspects of the Trust's quality and clinical governance. This includes, in particular:

·       providing strategic direction and Board assurance in relation to all patient care and patient experience matters, including legislative and/or regulatory matters;

·       ensuring that the Trust meets all its duties and obligations under the NHS Constitution; plus all other statutory, regulatory, and best practice requirements;

·       ensuring that when an issue occurs which threatens the Trust's ability to deliver safe, high quality, patient-centred care and an excellent patient experience, this is managed and escalated appropriately and actions are taken and followed through;

·       that the Trust embeds lessons learned from adverse events, complaints and patient feedback into practice;

·       robustly and routinely monitors a set of clinical and quality metrics to assess patient care;

·       considering the quality impact of proposals or innovations on patients, service delivery or resource requirements;

·       assuring the Trust Board that the controls mitigating risk within the Committee's remit are effective and compliant with regulatory and legislative framework.

 The Committee meets a minimum of six times per year.

Terms of Reference can be found  Here