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Current applicants

There are three phases to the NHS foundation trust application process. Monitor’s assessment process is phase three, and starts once an NHS trust has received approval from the Secretary of State for Health to apply for NHS foundation trust status.

The following NHS trusts have received Secretary of State approval to apply for NHS foundation trust status:

• Ashford & St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust
• Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust
• The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust
• The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
• Kent and Medway Social Care Partnership NHS Trust
• Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Trust
• Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
• West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust
  
• Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

If you have any information which you wish Monitor to consider concerning one of the NHS trusts included in the above list, please contact us.

If you have a comment or complaint about an aspirant NHS foundation trust which is not included in the above list, please contact the Chief Executive of the trust, about which you wish to complain.