Board of Director Meetings

Board of Directors Meetings
Agendas and Papers

The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on:

Wednesday 19 May 2021

to be held via Video Conference
3:30pm - 4:00pm

This will be a short meeting to seek approval of the proposed acquisition of North West Boroughs and the joint application to NHSEI for the acquisition, subject to the receipt and consideration of a satisfactory risk rating from NHSEI. In the event that the Board approves this resolution, the Council of Governors will subsequently be asked on 19 May 2021 to provide its approval of the application.

Please note – normally Mersey Care’s Public Meeting of the Board of Directors is a meeting held in public, rather than a public meeting in which the public may participate. However in light of COVID-19 outbreak, the trust has taken a decision to hold this meeting virtually, which will permit the trust to implement social distancing by reducing face-to-face meetings across the trust in favour of meetings by phone / video conferencing. In making this decision, the trust has taken account of the letter from NHS England / Improvement’s Chief Operating Officer of 28 March 2020 entitled Reducing burden and releasing capacity at NHS providers and commissioners to manage the COVID-19 pressures, which states:

“while under normal circumstances the public can attend at least part of provider board meetings, Government social isolation requirements constitute ‘special reasons’ to avoid face to face gatherings as permitted by legislation”

As part of the Trust’s commitment to openness and accountability, members of the public are able to join the meeting via Zoom, but will need to apply in advance to do so as the address for the Zoom meeting will not be put on the public website. Should you wish to join this meeting please email Paula Murphy, Corporate Governance Manager via paula.murphy@merseycare.nhs.uk for details and observation guidelines. Unfortunately the Trust is not in a position to provide equipment, technical advice or support for members of the public wishing to observe this meeting using Zoom.

The papers for meetings will continue to be posted on the Trust’s website and minutes of the meetings – including any questions and answers to Board papers raised by members of the Board – will also be published on the website

Should you wish to ask a question about the issues addressed in any of the papers for this meeting, please address your question prior to the meeting by 12 noon on Tuesday 18 May 2021 to the Trust Secretary (andy.meadows@merseycare.nhs.uk). Subject to time constraints, questions will either be responded to in the 15 minutes following the Board meeting on the Zoom call or the Trust will endeavour to respond to you within 21 days.

We hope your recognise that we are doing this to help protect both our staff and members of the public by reducing the opportunities for transmission through social distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Trust will review this decision on a regular basis taking account of national guidance.

From this section, you can access Board of Directors agendas, minutes of meetings and supporting documents.

Due to the size of the PDF documents, sets of meeting papers may take a little longer to open.

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Minutes of Board of Directors meetings will be officially ratified and available following the next meeting of the Board.

2021 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

May 19th 2021 Board Pack (Extraordinary Meeting) & Ratified Minutes (to follow)

April 28th 2021 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes (to follow)

March 31st 2021 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes (to follow)

February 24th 2021 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

January 27th 2021 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes
Letter from NHS England / Improvement re Reducing the Burden and releasing capacity to manage the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

November 25th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

September 30th 2020 Board pack & Ratified Minutes

July 29th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

June 24th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes
2019/20 Annual Report & Annual Accounts - approved virtually on June 19th 2020 Ratified Minutes with final approval at the June 24th meeting as above

May 20th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

April 29th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

March 25th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

February 26th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

January 29th 2020 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

2019 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

September 25th 2019 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

July 31st 2019 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

May 22nd 2019 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes *Please note, there is an error within the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report 2018/19 item E2a), for details of this error please click here: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/

March 27th 2019 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes
Revised F1 Appendix 1 item

January 30th 2019 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

2018 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

November 28th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

September 26th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

July 25th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

June 27th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

May 30th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes *Please note, there is an error within the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report 2017/18 item I1a), for details of this error please click here: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/

May 24th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

March 21st 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

February 28th 2018 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

January 31st 2018 Board Pack & January 31 2018 Ratified Minutes

2017 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

December 20th, 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

November 29th, 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

October 25th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

September 27th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

August 30th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

July 26th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

June 28th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

May 24th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes *Please note, there is an error within the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report 2016/17 item F2), for details of this error please click here: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/

April 26 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

March 29th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

February 22nd 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

January 25th 2017 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

2016 - Board Papers & Ratified Minutes

November 30th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

September 28th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

July 27th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

June 29th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

June 14th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

May 25th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

April 27th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

April 20th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

March 30th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

January 27th 2016 Board Pack & Ratified Minutes

If you require Board papers prior to 2016, please email the Corporate Governance Team.