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NHS trusts: documents and guidance

Guidance and information for NHS trusts.

Events and webinars

Find out more about Monitor’s upcoming events and webinars 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.

Read more guidance and information about NHS procurement, choice and competition for healthcare providers and commissioners.

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.

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Updates to this page

Published 23 May 2014
Last updated 10 March 2015 + show all updates
  1. Added information strategy development text and updated the page with tariff arrangements for 2015/16.

  2. Added the publication: 'Integrated care: how to comply with Monitor’s requirements'

  3. We've added new guidance on mergers and transactions to the collection.

  4. Added the NHS National Tariff Payment System 2015/16: engagement documents

  5. First published.