About us

NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. We help those NHS foundation trusts and trusts to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care by enabling them to learn from each other, acting as their public voice and helping shape the system in which they operate.

NHS Providers has all trusts in England in voluntary membership, collectively accounting for £124bn of annual expenditure and employing 1.5 million people.

NHS Providers is led by its members. It has an active board of 20 chairs and chief executives, elected by member trusts.

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What we do

Our strategic objectives span the key focus areas of influence, voice and support, provided by a professional organisation. These help us:

• help providers drive improvement through effective shared development of best practice, support and learning for board members, governors and executive colleagues; create networking opportunities
• shape and influence the financial, policy and regulatory frameworks impacting on members' day-to-day work and future development via policy consultantions and horizon scanning
• build effective relationships with key stakeholders in central government, with regulators and across healthcare; champion member interests and raise their profile positively in the media
• support trusts in becoming foundation trusts

Member benefits

Benefits of membership include regular newsletters, briefings and reports, media coverage and blogs, conferences, networks and a range of development programmes.

Commercial companies can become an NHS Provider member through our associate membership scheme

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