The Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust monitors its governance arrangements, financial performance and the performance of the services it commissions and provides.

Governance is the term used to describe how the Trust manages its functions in order to achieve its objectives.

The Trust monitors financial and service performance in order to keep under review the progress being made towards improving the health of local people and meeting national and local targets.

The Trust routinely publishes information about financial targets, aims and objectives and key performance indicators. Documents that the Trust routinely publishes in this class include the Annual Accounts, Annual Budgets, Monthly Performance Reports, Local Delivery Plan, Controls Assurance Self-assessment Annual Report and Action Plan, Clinical Governance Development Plan and annual reports on Complaints, Adverse Events, Clinical Governance, Decontamination, Medical Devices Management, Infection Control and Security.

Each year all NHS Trusts receive their star ratings, which is an assessment of their performance during the previous year. The independent regulator for NHS performance, the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) is responsible for the publication of NHS Performance Ratings - this information is published on the Commission for Health Improvement website (CHI)

In addition, the Trust is monitored and scrutinised by a number of external bodies, details of which are set out in Appendix 2.

Class 9 gives further details about the policies and procedures that the Trust has in place.

The published information is available on the Trust's website or by contacting: