East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

NHS trust South East England

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Governance

Decision making rules, committees and publication status

documents held: 17
schemes read: 0
gaps found: 5

Governance and Operations

17 documents

Held: 10; Kinds of governance document held
Expected: 10; Of 10 this kind of body is expected to publish
Inside another: 1; Carried inside another document we hold
Still looking: 4; Not found by us yet

How it is constituted

The rules the body runs by, and who may take which decision under them.

Scheme of delegation

1 document, newest dated 13 Feb 2024

Governing documents, incorporating: Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Scheme of Delegation13 Feb 2024

What it reports about itself

The annual account of how the year went, and what the board says it is carrying.

Annual report

8 documents, newest dated 31 Mar 2026

Patient Experience Annual Report – 2025/26No date on the source
Quality Account – 2025/26No date on the source
Annual Report – 2021/22No date on the source
Auditor’s Annual ReportNo date on the source
Annual Report – 2025/2631 Mar 2026
Annual Report – 2024/2523 Sept 2025
Annual Report – 2023/2410 Sept 2024
Annual Report – 2022/231 Apr 2023

Governance statement

1 document

Annual Corporate Governance StatementNo date on the source

1 document, newest dated 1 Apr 2025

Staff Declarations of Interest1 Apr 2025

What it says it will do

Strategy, plans and the policies that follow from them, including equality, diversity and inclusion.

Strategy or plan

1 document

Our Green Plan 2026No date on the source

Policy

1 document, newest dated 20 Nov 2023

Patient safety incident response policy20 Nov 2023

What it must publish by law

The statutory publishing furniture every public body owes a reader who asks.

Freedom of information

1 document

Freedom of informationNo date on the source

Privacy notice

1 document

Privacy noticeNo date on the source

1 document

Terms and conditionsNo date on the source

Accessibility statement

1 document, newest dated 25 Mar 2026

Accessibility statement25 Mar 2026

Expected, and carried inside another document

Each of these is published inside something else, and each says where.

Assurance frameworkInside a board pack: Taken to the board as one of its papers, inside a board pack we hold. The papers tab has it.

Expected, and still looking

We have not found these yet. They are gaps in our collection, not findings about this trust, and each says how far we have got.

ConstitutionNot found by us yet: We do not hold this yet. The gap is in our collection, not a finding about the body.
Standing ordersNot found by us yet: We have read the governance pages we hold for this body and not found one there. We have not yet searched its sitemap, its board page and its board packs for it.
Standing financial instructionsNot found by us yet: We have read the governance pages we hold for this body and not found one there. We have not yet searched its sitemap, its board page and its board packs for it.
Terms of referenceNot found by us yet: We have read the governance pages we hold for this body and not found one there. We have not yet searched its sitemap, its board page and its board packs for it.

Every superseded version of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s governance documents is part of a subscription, and so is each body’s scheme of delegation line by line wherever it could be read.

Included with Basic. £19 a month, or £179 a year.

Source: documents published by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, collected and kept here because a body may take its own copy down. What this trust is expected to publish is recorded with the duty it comes from.