The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2021-22

Membership: Keeping people involved

Our governors have taken a proactive approach to engagement and go into the community and act as Christie ambassadors, being an open line of communication between the community and the hospital. We have an established and increasing group of members who have joined our ‘database’ representing patients, carers and The Christie community. These members are invited to take part in focus groups to give us first hand feedback about our existing services and input into the ways in which we may wish to develop our services in the future. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 we introduced our virtual focus groups and these have been well attended by our members Last year we discussed a wide range of topics including our outpatient redesign project, steroid alert cards, corneal donation, Public membership This is open to anyone aged 16 or over, living in England and Wales. There are currently 13 areas within this constituency, 11 based on local government electoral boundaries within our network with the others covering the ‘North West’ and ‘Remainder of England and Wales’. There is one governor for all public areas except Manchester and Cheshire, which each have two. At the end of March 2022 we had 10,538 public members. Staff membership Our staff and volunteers automatically become members as they join The Christie. The classes within the constituency are medical staff, nurses, other clinical professional staff, and non-clinical staff and volunteers. At the end of March 2022 we had 3,320 staff members and 140 volunteer members. blood tests and data use statements. There are two constituencies within the membership, as detailed below:

Being a member is a way of showing your support for The Christie. Members can be patients, friends, relatives, staff and members of the public. We keep our members informed about the latest Trust news and invite them to special events, giving them a voice via the ability to elect their governor. By becoming a member, people can influence the way we deliver our By the end of March 2022, The Christie’s total membership was 13,998 members. Having a large group of supporters providing a wide opinion base helps us to maintain a high profile for the Trust and develop the services we provide. We use a variety of approaches to recruit members including through our membership newsletter, as a result of community engagement by our public governors and via social media and our website. As a specialist tertiary centre, we feel our membership should reflect both the size and diversity of the population we serve and the activities we undertake. We monitor the age, gender and ethnic mix of our membership and would like to recruit more members particularly from underrepresented groups. The council of governors, through its membership and community engagement committee, is responsible for ensuring that we have a representative, active and engaged membership. This is achieved through our three year membership strategy and supporting annual action plan. The strategy started from April 2019 to March 2022. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the strategy has been extended to run to the end of March 2023. services and future strategies. Recruitment and representation

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