Trust Board Meetings

Public Board Meetings

The next Public Board Meeting will be held on 5th October 2023 at Ashford Hospital.

• Read the board documentation

If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact Liz Davies (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Members of the public are welcome to submit questions to the Board the week prior to the meeting. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Any questions received after this time will be taken to the next meeting.

Trust Board Meeting Timetable

Please note that these may be subject to change:

• 5th October 2023, Ashford Hospital
• 7th December 2023

Infection Prevention Control Guidelines and Visiting

We continue to maintain best IPC practice across all areas of the hospital sites, not just wards and clinics, in line with national guidance.

Watch our video on Infection Prevention Control Measures and Visiting Restrictions.

Please visit our Coronavirus pages for more detail about our current guidelines.

Liz Davies
Corporate Affairs Manager / Board Secretary 

Location of Board Meetings

Trust Board meetings are held at both our Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals sites. However, these may be held via Microsoft Teams to support social distancing (see above).

Publication of Meeting Papers

The papers for the board meetings will be published the Monday before the meeting is due to take place.

You can download the minutes and documentation of past meetings.

Confidential and Public Board Papers

The Board has previously agreed that it wishes to meet in public. The Board however noted that there would always be times when matters need to be discussed in a closed session, where the public could not attend.

In the spirit of openness the Board details below the typical matters which will be discussed in closed session.

• any documents pertaining to litigation or potential litigation;
• anything that is potentially commercially sensitive (as well as commercially confidential) for either the Trust or a third party;
• any matter concerning an individual patient or member of staff;
• anything relating to data that may be adjudged "protected" under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA);
• Documents that may be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Specific confidential items for example would include Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs) and contracting/tendering reports.

Trust Board Register of Interests

• Trust Board Register of Interests