January 2026 board papers

Date and time

Thursday 22 January 2026 at 11:00

Venue

Bernicia House, The Waterfront, Goldcrest Way, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8NY

If you require further information or need the meeting papers in a different format, please email kathryn.cawthorn@neas.nhs.uk 

Agenda

The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Preliminary items 

Verbal

The report provides the declarations of interests for members of the Board.

Report number 1: Declarations of Interest

Briefing

The purpose of this paper is to update Board Members of key issues facing the Trust.

Report number 4:  Chair and Chief Executive

Listening and Learning

Verbal 

Verbal 

Verbal

Trust Strategy and Enablers

Quality and our patients

Performance

The purpose of this report is to update the Board with the final compliance levels of the Trust against the NHS England Core Standards Self-Assessment 2024-25 following scrutiny by the ICB and Local Health Resilience Partnership (LHRP)

Report number 8: Final response: Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response Core Standards

The purpose is to provide Trust Board with an overview of key performance metrics covering quality and safety, clinical, operational performance, people and finance.

Report number 9: Integrated Quality and Performance

Report number 9.i: Appendix 1 - Integrated Quality and Performance Report

People

Governance and Regulation

The purpose is for Trust Board to consider and approve the paper and assessments on the Board Assurance Framework (BAF) for Q3 as recommended by the Audit and Risk Committee on 12 January 2026.

Report number 12: Q3: Board Assurance Framework

Report number 12.i: Board Assurance Framework Q3

Effective meeting management

Verbal 

  • Risks identified
  • Share with teams and Governors
  • Evaluation questions

Verbal 

Thursday 19 March, 10:00, Bernicia House