Governance Award

This award is being made to an individual, team or organisation that has actively contributed to the development of best practice in the area of integrated governance or improved governance performance.

Further detail on this Award can be found in HFMA’s 2007 Awards brochure.

Winner: Redbridge Primary Care Trust

Redbridge Primary Care Trust won the Governance Award for its work on integrating governance into its mainstream business planning process. Following the Department of Health’s Fit for Purpose initiative in 2006, the PCT introduced governance tools and processes to support each stage of business planning, including an accountability framework to engage all staff.

Conor Burke, the PCT’s director of organisational development and support services, saluted the trust’s staff. ‘This brings together the financial activity and quality aspects of performance into one governance framework so we can see that we are offering value for money and an effective service,’ he said.