Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

NHS trust South West England

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Governance and Operations

41 documents

Held: 7; Kinds of governance document held
Expected: 10; Of 10 this kind of body is expected to publish
Inside another: 2; 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.

Terms of reference

19 documents, newest dated 23 Jul 2026

See the Finance and Performance Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
See the Remuneration and Appointments Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
See the Quality Assurance Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
See the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
See the People and Culture Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
See the Charitable Funds Committee’s Terms of ReferenceNo date on the source
Remuneration and Appointments Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 525)23 Jul 2026
Finance and Performance Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 427)1 Mar 2026
Remuneration and Appointments Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 6)1 Mar 2026
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 443)8 Jan 2026
Charitable Funds Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 368)1 May 2025
People and Culture Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 38)5 Sept 2024
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 340)2 May 2024
People and Culture Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 377)1 Mar 2024
Quality Assurance Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 197)1 Mar 2024
Finance and Performance Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 327)1 Mar 2024
Remuneration and Appointments Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 424)21 Sept 2023
People and OD Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 4)7 Sept 2023
Charitable Funds Committee Terms of Reference (board pack, page 406)2 Sept 2021

What it reports about itself

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

Annual report

12 documents, newest dated 17 Sept 2026

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2025-2617 Sept 2026
Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21No date on the source
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Quality Account 2024 to 2025No date on the source
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Quality Account 2021 to 2022No date on the source
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Quality Account 2026 to 2027No date on the source
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Quality Account 2023 to 2024No date on the source
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Quality Account 2022 to 2023No date on the source
Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25No date on the source
Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20No date on the source
Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22No date on the source
Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24No date on the source
Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23No date on the source

3 documents

Gifts, Hospitality, Sponsorship and Declarations of Interests PolicyNo date on the source
Register of Trust Board Members Declaration of InterestNo date on the source
Decision-Making Staff Declarations of Interest including Gifts, Hospitality and SponsorshipNo date on the source

What it says it will do

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

Strategy or plan

3 documents, newest dated 20 Jul 2026

Our Trust Strategy 2026 – 2035No date on the source
Our Digital Strategy 2026 – 2035No date on the source
Our Strategy20 Jul 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion

2 documents

Annual Equality Report 2019 to 2020No date on the source
Annual Equality Report 2018 to 2019No date on the source

What it must publish by law

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

Privacy notice

1 document, newest dated 19 Aug 2026

Privacy Policy19 Aug 2026

Accessibility statement

1 document, newest dated 10 Sept 2026

Accessibility Tools10 Sept 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.
Governance statementInside the annual report: Published as a section of the annual report and accounts, which we hold, rather than as a document of its own.

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.
Scheme of delegationNot 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 Royal Cornwall Hospitals 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.

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Source: documents published by Royal Cornwall Hospitals 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.