What is the difference between elected and appointed governors?
Elected governors are elected to the board of governors by the members of an NHS foundation trust. Appointed governors are representatives from certain key stakeholders, such as a primary care trust that commissions services from the NHS foundation trust, and a local authority – they are appointed to the board of governors to represent those stakeholder groups. The National Health Service Act 2006 requires that more than half of the board must be elected from the public and (if there is one) patients’ constituencies. Therefore, although appointed governors have equal rights (i.e. one vote), elected governors form the majority of members on the board of governors.
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