Sub-committees of the BoD

The remuneration committee has delegated responsibility for the remuneration and terms of service for the chief executive and executive directors of the Trust.  Its responsibility includes all aspects of salary, provision for other benefits including pensions, arrangements for termination of employment and other contractual terms. The nomination and selection of candidates for appointment as chief executive or executive director is undertaken separately by an appointment committee.

Membership

All the Trust's Non-executive Directors are members of this committee.

The audit and risk committee is established as a committee of the Board of Directors (the Board) to support the Board in discharging its responsibilities by providing objective assurance that effective arrangements are in place across the Trust and its subsidiaries (the Group) for governance and internal control.

The Audit and Risk Committee provides the Board with a means of independent and objective review of financial and corporate governance, assurance processes and risk management across the whole of the Trust’s activities (clinical and non-clinical) both generally and in support of the annual governance statement. In addition the Committee:

• Champions and promotes highly effective risk management and ensures that the risk management process and culture are embedded throughout the Trust;
• Improves the standard of decision making on risk management throughout the Trust;
• Maximises patient safety through effective and integrated control systems;
• Ensures that appropriate standards are set and compliance with them is monitored, in non-financial, non-clinical areas that fall within the remit of the Committee;
• Monitors corporate governance (e.g. compliance with terms of authorisation, constitution, codes of conduct, standing orders, standing financial instructions, maintenance of register of interests);
• Provides assurance of independence for external and internal audit.

Membership

The following Non-executive Directors form the membership of the audit and risk committee:

• Ian Ailles (Chair)
• Keith Nurcombe
• Jayne Stringfellow

The key purpose of all assurance committees is to assure, and where necessary, advise and alert; supporting the Board in its delivery of Trust’s strategic objectives. As appropriate the committee will also consider its work within the context of system working receiving assurance and updates on collaborative working as necessary.

The Committee is a formal committee of the Board and has delegated authority from the Board in line with the Scheme of Delegation.

The Committee will seek assurance where necessary from within the areas identified below:

• Finance & use of resources
• Capital & Business cases
• Strategic change
• Operational performance

In addition, the Committee will seek assurance with regard to other data included in the Integrated Performance Report (IPR) (with links to Single Overview Framework) that relate to its terms of reference.

Membership:

• Keith Nurcombe (Chair),
• Nora Senior
• Paul Scriven

The key purpose of all assurance committees is to assure, and where necessary, advise and alert; supporting the Board in its delivery of Trust’s strategic objectives. As appropriate the committee will also consider its work within the context of system working receiving assurance and updates on collaborative working as necessary.

The Committee is a formal committee of the Board and has delegated authority from the Board in line with the Scheme of Delegation.

The Committee will seek assurance where necessary from within the areas identified below:

• Finance & use of resources
• Capital & Business cases
• Strategic change
• Operational performance

In addition, the Committee will seek assurance in with regard to other data included in the Integrated Performance Report (IPR) (with links to Single Overview Framework) that relate to its terms of reference.

Membership:

• Keith Nurcombe (Chair)

• Nora Senior

• Paul Scriven

The key purpose of all assurance committees is to assure, and where necessary, advise and alert; supporting the Board in its delivery of Trust’s strategic objectives. As appropriate, the committee will also consider its work within the context of system working receiving assurance and updates on collaborative working as necessary.

The Committee is a formal committee of the Board and has delegated authority from the Board in line with the Scheme of Delegation.

The Committee will seek assurance where necessary from within the areas identified below:

• Leadership & improvement capability
• Operational performance
• Finance and use of resources
• Strategic change

Membership 

• Jeremy Wight (Chair)

• Sue Glew

• Atul Patel

The oversight committee provides an overview, to the board of directors, on service provision, cost, performance monitoring of the Trust’s wholly owned subsidiary Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) and a route of escalation for any service failures against agreed KPI’s that should remain unresolved following the contractual Dispute Resolution Procedure between the Trust representative and the service provider.

Membership

The following Non-executive Directors and Executive Directors form the membership of the oversight committee:

• Lord Paul Scriven (Chair)

• Angie Smithson
• Krishna Kallianpur
• Zoe Lintin
• Lee Outhwaite
• Jon Cort