The Information Commissioner’s Office has identified 7 classes of information which should be published by public bodies and describes the type of information that should be provided under these classes in the Health Bodies Definition Document.
Who we are and what we do?
- Gender pay gap reporting
- How we fit into the NHS structure
- Lists of and information relating to key organisations with which you work in partnership
- Location and contact details for all public-facing departments
- Meetings with pharmaceutical companies and other medical suppliers
- Organisational structure
- Senior executives and management board or governing body members
- Workforce diversity
What we spend and how we spend it
- Capital programme
- Details of contracts currently being tendered
- Financial statements, budgets and variance reports
- Financial audit reports
- Funding (including endowment funds and charitable donations)
- List and value of contracts awarded
- Procurement and tendering procedures
- Staff and board members’ allowances and expenses
- Staff pay and grading structures
- Trade Union facility time
What our priorities are and how are we doing
- Annual business or commissioning plan
- Annual report
- Audit reports delivered at board or governing body level
- Clinical strategy, if applicable
- Data protection impact assessments (in full or summary format) or any other impact assessments
- Green Plan
- Performance against targets (KPI), performance framework, performance management information, quality improvement plans
- Reports by regulatory organisations, eg Care Quality Commission and NHS England
- Service user surveys
- Strategic direction document (five-year plan)
- Targets, aims and objectives
How we make decisions
- Board papers – agenda, supporting papers and minutes
- Internal communications guidance and criteria used for decision making, ie process systems and key personnel
- Patient and public engagement strategy
- Public consultations (for example, concerning closures or variations of services)
Our policies and procedures
- Charging regimes and policies
- Customer service and complaints policies and procedures
- (if applicable) Clinical research transparency standards and research ethics committees standard operating procedures
- Data protection and duty of confidentiality, records management, Caldicott Guardian
- Estate management
- Equality and diversity policies
- Health and safety
- Pay policy statement
- Policies and procedures relating to conducting business and the provision of services
- Policies and procedures relating to human resources including recruitment and employment policies
- Standing financial procedures or instructions
- Standing orders
Lists and registers
- Any information you are currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers
- Any register of interest kept in the authority
- Asset registers
- CCTV
- Disclosure log
- Information asset register
- List of main contractors or suppliers
- Register of gifts and hospitality provided to board members and senior personnel
The services we offer
- Advice and guidance
- Clinical services provided or commissioned
- Corporate communications and media releases
- Non-clinical services
- Patient advice and liaison service
- Patient information leaflets and other booklets and newsletters
- Patient support groups, including bereavement support
- Services for which you are entitled to recover a fee together with those fees