Publication Scheme

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust publication scheme is based on the model publication scheme prepared and approved by the Information Commissioner. This publication scheme commits the Trust to make information available to the public as part of our normal business activities. The information covered is included in the classes of information mentioned below, where this information is held by the Trust.

To help you find the information you are looking for, the scheme is split into different sections.

If you are unable to find what you are looking for, please email the Company Secretary.

Who we are and what we do

In this section you will find key information and facts and figures about the Trust.

About us

Our vision and values

Our Board

What we spend and how we spend it

In this section you will find financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit.

How we are financed

NHS trusts are financed in two main ways:

Revenue funding for the day-to-day running of the NHS Trust.
Capital financing, to fund the purchase of assets (buildings and equipment).

The Department of Health allocates funding to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) on the basis of the local needs of their populations. NHS trusts receive most of their revenue funding from CCGs via contractual agreements based on the number of patients that the Trust treats. From April 2022, CCGs will cease to exist and the Trust’s main source of funding will flow instead from the West Yorkshire Integrated Care System.

Capital is generally financed from internally generated resources such as depreciation.

What we spend and how we spend it

You can find our latest published annual report and annual accounts on our Annual Reports page.

You can find details on our monthly expenditure over £25,000 in the 'Publication of spend' section below.

Every year, external auditors plan and carry out an audit that meets the requirements of the National Audit Office Code of Audit Practice (the Code). Under the Code, they are required to review and report on:

The Trust’s financial accounts.
The Trust’s approach on Value for Money arrangements, in terms of financial sustainability and governance.

Their annual audit report summarises the significant issues arising from both these areas of work and highlights the key recommendations that they consider should be addressed by our Trust. To see a copy of the latest Annual Audit Report, visit the Annual Reports page.

In December 2017, the Trust appointed Mazars as its external auditors for the financial years 2018/19 to 2020/21, with an option to extend for a further two years. This initial appointment was decided by the Trust’s Auditor Appointment Panel based on a selection process which included a presentation from auditor firms. The firms were selected to take part in the process from a national procurement framework. The Trust Board accepted the advice from its Auditor Appointment Panel in making this appointment.

Financial responsibilities, policies and procedures

The financial responsibilities, policies and procedures adopted by the Trust are detailed in the Standing Financial Instructions. These are designed to ensure that our financial transactions are carried out in accordance with the law and with Government policy in order to achieve probity, accuracy, economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The procedures for procurement and tendering are contained within the Standing Financial Instructions. The instructions should be read in conjunction with the Scheme of Reservation and Delegation and the Standing Orders, all of which are approved by the Trust Board.

Standing Orders Policy [pdf] 409KB

Standing Financial Instructions [pdf] 702KB

Scheme of Reservation and Delegation v27.pdf [pdf] 736KB

Information regarding our performance against agreed budgets is contained within the Trust Board Scorecard received by the Trust Board. Visit the Board meetings and papers page to read Trust Board papers.

The Trust annual report details the remuneration paid to Board members. Staff are also entitled to claim appropriate allowances and expenses in line with Trust policy.

Pay and conditions

The Trust employs staff in line with the national terms and conditions of the NHS. This covers national rates for things such as pay scales (as per the national job evaluation scheme), pensions, annual leave provision and redundancy rates. More information can be found on the NHS Employers website.

Publication of spend

As part of the Government's commitment to greater transparency, there is a requirement to publish all central government expenditure over £25,000 online.

NHS organisations are required to publish all expenditure over £25,000 on a monthly basis.

For our full annual accounts, visit the Annual Reports page.

You can click on the links below to view monthly reports of spending at our Trust over £25,000. This includes all individual invoices, grant payments, expense payments or other transactions that are over £25,000 (excluding pay). Please click on the relevant month to see spending for that period. Each report is available on portable document format (PDF) or as a comma separated value (CSV) file.

What our priorities are and how we are doing

In this section you will find our strategies and plans, performance indicators, audits inspections and reviews.

Our strategies

Corporate publications

How we make decisions

In this section you will find information regarding our decision-making processes and records of decisions.

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (the Trust) is a statutory body which came into existence on 1 April 2002 under The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Establishment) Order and the Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals NHS Trust and the Dewsbury Health Care NHS Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002 No. 1341.

In accordance with the Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements regulations the Trust Board is made up non executive and executive directors.

Trust Board structure - read more about the Board members.
Trust Board meetings and papers - read agendas, minutes and papers for Trust Board meetings.

If you are unable to find the item you are looking for, please email the Publication Scheme administrator.

The Board has established a number of sub-committees; an update of these sub-committee meetings are routinely reported to the Trust Board and can be accessed by using the above link.

The Trust is committed to involving members of the public in shaping our services. You can find out more about how we do this below.

Patient and Public Involvement

What is Patient and Public involvement?

Patient and public participation is important because it helps us to improve all aspects of health care, including patient safety, patient experience and health outcomes – giving people the power to live healthier lives.

Participation, by the people who use and care about NHS services, enables us to understand and respond to their needs; including those people who have the poorest health. This helps us to improve access to services and reduce differences in health in different communities. It allows us to see things through the eyes of those who use services and to be innovative, leading to better use of taxpayers’ money.

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)

PPI is the way in which patients, the public, service users and carers can:

Influence their own care and treatment.
Have a say in the way services are planned and run.
Help bring about improvements to the way care is provided.

Patients have a right to:

Good treatment in a comfortable, caring and safe environment, delivered in a calm and reassuring way.
Information to enable them to make choices, to feel confident, and to feel in control.
Be talked to and listened to as an equal.
Be treated with honesty, respect and dignity.

Why the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust involves the public

Involving the public in the work of the Trust results in a number of benefits:

Well-informed people make better, more effective use of services which leads to better use of resources.
Services can be better targeted to the needs of different communities.
Better feedback enables service problems to be resolved more quickly and accurately and leads to service improvements.
Services can respond to, and be driven by, the needs of patients, partners and staff.
If PPI mechanisms are in place, some decision making can be made at local level by service users.

Stakeholders

Health and health services play a significant part in all our lives. As the provider of acute hospital services to local people, our Trust and its activities are naturally of interest to a wide range of individuals, groups and organisations. All of these people are our stakeholders.

We work to ensure that our stakeholders are regularly updated about everything significant we do through regularly updateing. We will also listen and learn from what local people have to say about our services before change is made or decisions are taken.

Effective stakeholder engagement requires strong and enduring relationships between the Trust and local people. That is why we welcome the involvement and opinion of the public about our services, some of which is reflected in our Friends and Family Test.

The Friends and Family Test aims to give patients the opportunity to feed back their views of the care or treatment they have received in hospital. This will enable the Trust to engage with patients, celebrate areas of good practice and target areas for improvement. To see the latest Friends and Family Test results, please click here.

Stakeholder Forum Group

In May 2013, the Trust established a Stakeholder Forum Group. The initial invitation was open to the public, patients, members of health-related voluntary organisations, carers and anyone who lived in the areas that the Trust served, and was interested in the services that the Trust provided.

Members were picked from applications submitted, and the Stakeholder Forum now consists of 24 members from all walks of life, and from 3 key areas; Wakefield, Pontefract and North Kirklees.

On establishing the Stakeholder Forum, we asked that the members have a strong interest in healthcare and to offer their comments and experiences to the Trust Board on behalf of the community, and to be accountable to the public when communicating information relating to the Trust

As well as providing guidance and support to the Trust Board in developing its strategy and plans, members use their own networks in the community and workforce to inform and advice the Trust and Trust Board on key issues.

NHS Improvement

From 1 April 2016, NHS Improvement is the operational name for an organisation that brings together Monitor, NHS Trust Development Agency, Patient Safety including NRLS, Advancing Change Team and Intensive Support Teams.

West Yorkshire & Harrogate Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP)

MYHT is aligned with the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint (STP). We have governance structures in place that support our involvement to ensure MYHT is sighted on, and involved in, developments and initiatives to support new partnerships and co-operative ways of working to close the triple gap; prevention, finance and quality.

The following key priorities for West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP have been identified:

Urgent and Emergency Care
Specialised Commissioning
Mental Health
Prevention
Stroke
Cancer
Primary and Community Care
Acute Sustainability
Standardisation and Variation

Our involvement in delivering key outputs from the West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP will be through our active involvement with the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) and a member of its Committee in Common. Similarly the Trust is also a member of the South Yorkshire Acute Trusts ‘Working Together’ Committee in Common.

Of crucial importance is the ‘place based’ partnerships in Wakefield and North Kirklees. The recently established Wakefield New Models of Care Board is a very positive opportunity to improve out of hospital services, and is the first step to it becoming a Committee in Common and a Multi-specialty Community Provider.

Multi specialty community providers (MCPs) are population-based new care model that aim to improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of their local population. It is based around the general practice registered list, and applies a new model of enhanced primary and community care. The MCPs encourage diverse communities to look after themselves by supporting self-care and connecting people to community assets and resources. They support staff to work in different ways, with a focus on team-based care, and harness digital technology to achieve their goals.

Our policies and procedures

If you would like to request a policy or procedure document from the Trust, please contact us.

Lists and registers

In this section you will find out how to access our publicly available registers, such as receipt of gifts and hospitality.

Declaration of interests, gifts, hospitality and sponsorship

A register of interests of members of the Trust Board and decision-making individuals is maintained by the Company Secretary and is available on the Our Board page. The Company Secretary also maintains a register of interests, gifts, hospitality and sponsorship for all staff.

To access any of the items, please email midyorks.declarationsofinterests@nhs.net.

The services we offer

In this section you will find information about the services we offer, including how to access leaflets and guidance.

View all our service areas from A to Z

Our services at Pinderfields

Our services at Dewsbury

Our services at Pontefract

Our services in the community

Fees and charges

There is no fee for processing requests for access to health records, unless the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

Publication scheme fees and charges

The Freedom of Information Act and the associated Fees Regulations stipulate that we cannot levy a fee for information unless there is a statutory basis for doing so. However, we are allowed to charge for disbursements related to the provision of information and any reformatting requested by the applicant provided we ensure that applicants are aware of any charges which may be made.

No charges will be made for any information accessed via our website.

For any information which is provided in hard copy and where there is no statutory provisions for charges, we may charge for photocopying (50p per sheet), reformatting (applicant will be informed prior to producing information regarding the charge dependent upon the amount of materials used, e.g. CD, paper, etc) and postage.

NHS Provider Licence Self Certification

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 introduced the concept of a licence for providers of NHS services, and the NHS Provider Licence was subsequently introduced in February 2013.

Foundation Trusts were licensed from April 2013, with other providers being licensed from April 2014, but it was later confirmed that the Licence would not apply to NHS Trusts. Despite this, in April 2017, NHS Improvement (NHSI) confirmed that NHS Trusts must undertake a self-certification against the NHS Provider Licence, on the basis that, despite their exemption, directions from the Secretary of State required NHSI to ensure that NHS Trusts complied with conditions equivalent to the Licence, as it deemed appropriate. As the NHSE Single Oversight Framework (SOF) bases its oversight on the Licence, NHS Trusts are therefore legally subject to the equivalent of certain Provider Licence conditions, and must self-certify under these licence provisions. The Trust Board approved the self certification for 2022 and the document can be accessed below.

NHS Provider Licence Self Certification 2023 [pdf]

Freedom of Information requests

The Trust policy is to be open and honest about everything we do. On average, we receive between 650 and 700 requests for information supported by the Freedom of Information Act (known as FOIs).

Our most popular requests for information

We get asked about some things more often than others. Here is a list of our most common FOI requests received over the last year, along with our response. If you are thinking about submitting an FOI request, you might want to look through these requests and our responses to see if we might have already answered your question.

Estates and Facilities