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Current practice in NHS foundation trust member recruitment and engagement
Published on: 5 July 2011
This report outlines the progress that foundation trusts have made in membership recruitment and engagement.
Download - Current practice in NHS foundation trust member recruitment and engagement - (617.33 KB)
Download - Executive summary of member recruitment and engagement report (183.72 KB)
Download - Member recruitment and engagement questionnaire (101.32 KB)
Download - Technical appendix on survey methodology (224.91 KB)
The report includes:
- an analysis of foundation trust membership data and governor election data since 2004;
- examples of current foundation trust member recruitment and engagement activity;
- examples of impact that trusts say the membership model is having; and
- a set of foundation trust membership case studies demonstrating some current approaches to recruitment and / or engagement.
The report highlights how foundation trusts are putting considerable effort into member recruitment and engagement. There are many different methods and initiatives in use across the country and this report highlights just some of these.
However there remain significant challenges ahead in terms of improving, in particular, how trusts engage effectively with their members.
