Events

Members are welcome to see our board in action at our Board of Directors meetings held in public.  

The Directors make key decisions about the running and development of the organisation.  

If you’d like to attend please email Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk to let us know.

If you’d like to ask the Board a question, there are 3 ways you can do this:

1. At the meeting, fill out a question form and give it to our Company Secretary.
2. Download the questions for the board form and email it to: Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk
3. Download the questions for the board form and post it to:

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Corporate Governance Team, NHS Parkhouse South, Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, CA6 4SJ

We’ll try to answer your question in writing within 5 working days. The answer will also be read out at the next meeting. If you can not attend the meeting, your question and the answer will still be read out. It will also be included in the minutes of the meeting.

Guidance for asking questions

Written questions for the Board Meeting

• People may ask a question on any matter contained within the agenda of meeting.
• A question under this protocol may be asked in writing to Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk by 10am, 4 clear working days before the date of the Board meeting.
• The Board will provide a written response to questions received from members of the public.
• The response will also be read out at the meeting by the Chair or other Board members to whom it was addressed.
• If the member of public raising the question is unable to attend the meeting in person, the question and response will still be read out and a formal written response will be sent following the meeting within 10 working days of the date of the meeting.
• A record of all questions asked, and the Board’s response, will be included in the meeting minutes for public record.

Oral Questions without Notice for the Board Meeting

• A member of the public who has put a written question may, with the consent of the Chair, ask one additional question on the same subject at the Board meeting.
• The meetings held in public also have time allocated at the start of each agenda for the receipt of questions from members of the public present about any item on the agenda, without notice having been given. Due to the limited time of the Board meeting, a member of the public may ask one question on this basis. An answer to an oral question in this way will take the form of either:
  • a direct oral answer; or
  • if the information required is not easily available, a written answer will be sent to the questioner and circulated to all members of the Board within 10 working days of the date of the meeting.

Exclusions:

• Written questions may be rejected and oral questions need not be answered when the Chair considers that they:
  • are not on any matter that is within the powers and duties of the Board;
  • are defamatory, frivolous or offensive;
  • are substantially the same as a question that has been put to a meeting of the Board in the past six months (the questioner will be directed to the appropriate answer on the relevant organisation’s website); or
  • would require the disclosure of confidential or exempt information.

For further information, please contact: Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk

Spoken questions

If you have written to the Board asking a question, you can also ask a follow up question on the day of the meeting, with the consent of the Chair. Your question must be related to the one you sent in writing.

There is also some time at the beginning of the meeting for questions relating to the agenda. The Board will either answer questions directly or, if the information is not easily available, they’ll send an answer in writing within 10 working days.

Your question will not be answered if the Chair considers it to be:

• about something that’s confidential
• something that the Trust has no control over
• a question that has already been answered by the Board in the last 6 months
• offensive, silly or damaging to someone’s reputation

If you’d like more information about asking questions at Board meetings, you can email Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk.

Members can come along and listen to their Governors reviewing the performance of the Board of Directors and represent their communities in the governance of the Trust.

If you would like to attend or have any queries please contact 01228 936230 or email Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk.

Members are welcome to see our board in action at our Board of Directors meetings held in public.  

The Directors make key decisions about the running and development of the organisation.  

If you’d like to attend please email Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk to let us know.

If you’d like to ask the Board a question, there are 3 ways you can do this:

1. At the meeting, fill out a question form and give it to our Company Secretary.
2. Download the questions for the board form and email it to: Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk
3. Download the questions for the board form and post it to:

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Corporate Governance Team, NHS Parkhouse South, Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, CA6 4SJ

We’ll try to answer your question in writing within 5 working days. The answer will also be read out at the next meeting. If you can not attend the meeting, your question and the answer will still be read out. It will also be included in the minutes of the meeting.

Guidance for asking questions

Written questions for the Board Meeting

• People may ask a question on any matter contained within the agenda of meeting.
• A question under this protocol may be asked in writing to Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk by 10am, 4 clear working days before the date of the Board meeting.
• The Board will provide a written response to questions received from members of the public.
• The response will also be read out at the meeting by the Chair or other Board members to whom it was addressed.
• If the member of public raising the question is unable to attend the meeting in person, the question and response will still be read out and a formal written response will be sent following the meeting within 10 working days of the date of the meeting.
• A record of all questions asked, and the Board’s response, will be included in the meeting minutes for public record.

Oral Questions without Notice for the Board Meeting

• A member of the public who has put a written question may, with the consent of the Chair, ask one additional question on the same subject at the Board meeting.
• The meetings held in public also have time allocated at the start of each agenda for the receipt of questions from members of the public present about any item on the agenda, without notice having been given. Due to the limited time of the Board meeting, a member of the public may ask one question on this basis. An answer to an oral question in this way will take the form of either:
  • a direct oral answer; or
  • if the information required is not easily available, a written answer will be sent to the questioner and circulated to all members of the Board within 10 working days of the date of the meeting.

Exclusions:

• Written questions may be rejected and oral questions need not be answered when the Chair considers that they:
  • are not on any matter that is within the powers and duties of the Board;
  • are defamatory, frivolous or offensive;
  • are substantially the same as a question that has been put to a meeting of the Board in the past six months (the questioner will be directed to the appropriate answer on the relevant organisation’s website); or
  • would require the disclosure of confidential or exempt information.

For further information, please contact: Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk

Spoken questions

If you have written to the Board asking a question, you can also ask a follow up question on the day of the meeting, with the consent of the Chair. Your question must be related to the one you sent in writing.

There is also some time at the beginning of the meeting for questions relating to the agenda. The Board will either answer questions directly or, if the information is not easily available, they’ll send an answer in writing within 10 working days.

Your question will not be answered if the Chair considers it to be:

• about something that’s confidential
• something that the Trust has no control over
• a question that has already been answered by the Board in the last 6 months
• offensive, silly or damaging to someone’s reputation

If you’d like more information about asking questions at Board meetings, you can email Corporate.Governance@ncic.nhs.uk.