NHS Foundation Trusts

The NHS Oversight Framework (NOF) sets out NHS England’s approach to oversight of the National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs). NHS England allocates all ICBs and NHS trusts, including foundation trusts, to one of four segments. A segmentation decision indicates the scale and nature of support needs, from no specific support needs, or segment one, to a requirement for mandated intensive support, or segment four. NHS England publishes the segmentation decisions. This is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-oversight-framework-22-23/.

Trusts and ICBs in NOF segment four receive mandated intensive support via NHS England’s Recovery Support Programme (RSP). There are currently 20 trusts and three ICBs in the RSP. The trusts in the RSP are shown in the following list:

• Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust;
• Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust;
• King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;
• Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust;
• University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust;
• Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust;
• Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;
• Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust;
• East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust;
• Medway NHS Foundation Trust;
• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust;
• South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust;
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust;
• University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust;
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust;
• Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;
• University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust;
• Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; and
• Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.

The list of trusts and ICBs in the RSP is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/system-and-organisational-oversight/national-recovery-support-programme/