We have recently become members of the Yorkshire Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service’s vision is to provide an ambulance service which is continuously developing and delivering the highest level of patient care and services for their residents across Yorkshire and the Humber, Bassetlaw, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
To help them achieve this vision, they have started on a journey to become an NHS Foundation Trust. NHS Foundation Trusts are membership organisations that are free from central government control. This means that Yorkshire Ambulance Service will have a lot more freedom to shape the way that they provide and develop services for their patients.
They have set out some plans for how they would like to take the new organisation forward in the future, and have been consulting with staff and residents alike since September around these plans.
As a Foundation Trust their decisions will be influenced by our ‘Members’, who will be made up of staff, patients and public from across Yorkshire and the Humber, Bassetlaw, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
Everyone who lives in these areas and is over the age of 16 will be able to become a member (membership is free). As a member you will be to help us shape the way that we develop our services in the future and make sure that they really benefit your local community.
However, to become a Foundation Trust the organisation needs 6,000 members from the region.
But we can do that can’t we? A lot of Ferno staff have already filled in the online form to become members and you can too! To become a member and ensure the Yorkshire Ambulance Service gets Foundation Trust status go to the form here and fill it in.
You can contact Yorkshire Ambulance Service for more information on their future plans, or to become a member of the new Trust, by emailing them at foundationtrust@yas.nhs.uk or by phone 01924 584 567.
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