NHS trusts: documents and guidance
Guidance and information for NHS trusts.
Foundation trust applicants
To be authorised as an NHS foundation trust, you’ll need to pass a Care Quality Commission inspection and an assessment by Monitor.
The NHS payment system
Monitor and NHS England invite you to take part in shaping the development of the NHS payment system. You should read these guidance documents.
You can find out more in this collection of publications on the payment system.
Procurement, choice and competition
Monitor’s role is to make sure that procurement, choice and competition operate in the best interests of patients and to step in if anti-competitive behaviour by NHS commissioners or providers goes against patients’ interests.
Mergers and transactions
Integrated care
Integrated care helps organisations work across traditional boundaries to provide care and support that meets the needs of patients and service users.
Improving patient flow
Evidence from Monitor to support local decisions on options for improving patient flow.
Developing your strategy
You can request joining our LinkedIn Strategy and Development Planning group to discuss management issues and best practice.
Developing your staff
Guidance for NHS trusts to help bring about systematic change in their organisations.
Service-line management
Service-line management is an approach to management developed for the NHS by Monitor.
You can find out more in our collection of publications on service-line management.