NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation is the membership body for organisations that commission and provide National Health Service (NHS) services.
The NHS Confederation has offices in England, Wales (The Welsh NHS Confederation) and Northern Ireland (the Northern Ireland Confederation for Health and Social Care). It provides a subscription service for NHS organisations in Scotland.
Funding
NHS Confederation income is generated via number of different activities. 48% is generated through membership subscriptions; 24% is generated through conferences and events, including sponsorship and exhibitions; and 26% is generated through the reward of grants and contracts.
Income is re-invested in the delivery of the NHS Confederation’s charitable objectives and in the development and delivery of its member products and services.
The NHS Confederation trustees annual report and accounts are published on the Charity Commission's website.
Aims
The NHS Confederation helps the NHS to guarantee high standards of care for patients and best value for taxpayers by representing its members and working together with its health and social care partners.
The NHS Confederation helps to make sense of the whole health system, influence health policy and deliver industry-wide support functions for the NHS.77
NHS membership
The NHS Confederation represents all organisations that commission and provide NHS services.
Its members include acute trusts, ambulance trusts, community health service providers, foundation trusts, mental health providers, primary care trusts and clinical commissioning groups, and a growing number of independent and voluntary sector healthcare organisations that deliver services within the NHS.
It represents the NHS as a whole and has a number of networks to support its members in areas of specific concern to their part of the healthcare system. These include:
- Ambulance Service Network
- Primary Care Trust Network
- Mental Health Network
- NHS Partners Network
NHS support functions
The NHS Confederation delivers a number of industry-wide support functions for the NHS including:
- the NHS Employers organisation that represent trusts in England on workforce issues
- the NHS European Office that promotes the priorities and interests of the NHS to European Institutions and provides information and advice to NHS trusts on relevant European Union developments
- the Service Delivery and Organisation Network and the Health Services Research Network that help NHS trusts to access and engage with health services research.
Annual conference
The NHS Confederation holds an annual conference and exhibition for chairs, chief executives and non-executive directors' senior figures and decision makers from health and social care.
Publications
The NHS Confederation produces regular briefings and reports on key health care issues. View their publication online. It also produces an annual guide to the NHS called the NHS Handbook
Corporate office
The Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation is Mike Farrar, formerly chief executive of North West Strategic Health Authority. The current chairman is Mr Michael O'Higgins.
External links
- NHS Confederation website
- Annual conference & exhibition website
- NHS Confederation events and seminars
- NHS Confederation reports
- NHS Employers