Mandatory guidance

26-01-2012 - NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reporting Manual 2011/12
The NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reporting Manual 2011/12 provides guidance to foundation trusts on producing their annual reports and accounts.
02-12-2011 - Lessons learned from Monitor's review of significant Transforming Community Services transactions
This report highlights lessons learned from the 27 TCS transactions we have reviewed between December 2010 and November 2011. These learnings are relevant to any transaction a foundation trust may be undertaking.
21-10-2011 - Schedule 6 of the terms of authorisation
Schedule 6 of an NHS foundation trust’s terms of authorisation lists the information they have a legal or statutory obligation to supply.
16-09-2011 - Quality governance assurance in transactions: Monitor's requirements for 2011/12
19-08-2011 - Community services governance indicators: Monitor's requirements for 2011/12
31-03-2011 - Compliance Framework 2011/12
The Compliance Framework sets out the approach we will take in 2011/12 to assess the compliance of NHS foundation trusts with their terms of authorisation and to intervene where necessary.
31-03-2011 - Audit Code for NHS Foundation Trusts
This is the revised version of the code, which applies to audits and auditors of NHS foundation trusts from 1 April 2011 onwards.
31-03-2011 - NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reporting Manual 2010-11
This document comprises both the financial and additional annual reporting requirements for 2010-11. It replaces the Annual Reporting Manual which was published on 28 February 2011 and included financial reporting requirements only. It now includes information on accounting for Transforming Community Services transactions (see page 37)
31-03-2011 - Detailed Guidance for External Assurance on Quality Reports
This document sets out detailed guidance for NHS foundation trusts and their auditors to enable them to carry out the external assurance engagement on Quality Reports from 2010/11.
31-03-2011 - Key learnings from regulatory action in 2010
This short report sets out some of the lessons learned from NHS foundation trusts that have been in significant breach of their terms of authorisation