Providing external assurance to trustees and commissioners at Queenscourt Hospice
Providing external assurance to trustees and commissioners at Queenscourt Hospice
2 PagesCase Study Providing external assurance to trustees and commissioners at Queenscourt Hospice Background Queenscourt Hospice, in Southport Merseyside, is an independent charitable, voluntary body funded by donations and the NHS – although NHS funding makes up less than a third of its income. It aims to provide free, individualised, holistic, evidence and experience-based, specialist palliative care for adults who have advanced progressive and incurable illness. Its governing body is the Council of Trustees which is chaired by Dr Peter Downham. The day-to-day management is in the hands of the Executive Directors: Dr Karen Groves; Cath Baldry and Ann Throp. Scale of challenge Mrs Throp has been Director of Non-Clinical Services since 1998 and says it was a review of organisational
