Provider Collaboration: A practical guide to lawful, well-governed collaboratives

Have you openly discussed and agreed with partners the extent of your ambitions for collaboration now, and with a view to partners' appetite for the future?
Have you agreed how to begin to develop and continue to work on establishing fruitful relationships between participating organisations' boards and wherever else relevant between employees?
Have you discussed organisational risk profiles as partners and how risks to achieving the collaboration's objectives will be managed?
Are your decisions about governance arrangements proportionate to risk and does 'form follow function'?
Is any paperwork, whether legally binding or not, underpinning your collaboration clear and well-understood, where considered useful?
Have you ensured any committees or groups formed are lawful?
Are there clear terms of reference for any collaborative committees or groups and are all partners in agreement?
Are partners clear about which functions and decisions are reserved to provider boards? Are those with delegated authority clear about its limits?
Are partner boards clear about their oversight and assurance reporting requirements?
Have you made risk-proportionate decisions about involving adequate NED representation to provide independent challenge and scrutiny at the point of decision-making?
Are roles and responsibilities well understood?
Are partners clear about each provider's individual and/or shared accountabilities and their liabilities?
Are conflicts of interests managed effectively?
Have partners' schemes of delegation been updated if necessary?

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