About our Board

Our Board meets in public every month allowing members of staff, patients, the public and the media to attend our meetings and to retain full and effective control over our organisation.

You can find the dates and locations of these monthly meetings within the What's Happening section of this site.

As with all NHS boards, the Board of NCH&C comprises Executive Directors, Non-Executive Directors and a Chair. Together they share corporate responsibility for all of the Board's decisions. Find out more about each Board member.

In more detail, the role of our Board is to:

 Be collectively responsible for adding value to the organisation, for promoting the success of the organisation by directing and supervising the organisation’s affairs
 Provide active leadership of the organisation within a framework of prudent and effective controls which enable risk to be assessed and managed
 Set the organisation’s strategic aims, ensure that the necessary financial and human resources are in place for the organisation to meet its objectives, and review management performance
 Set the organisation’s values and standards and ensure that its obligations to patients, the local community and the Secretary of State are understood and met.

Further documents providing information about how and why the Board operates can be found in the Related Documents section below.