About us
The Authority is led by a Board, which is currently chaired by Professor Dame Joan Higgins DBE.
We are accountable for our work to the Secretary of State for Health, who is in turn accountable to Parliament. Our Framework Document sets out our responsibilities and how we will achieve them, while our Business Plan is agreed annually with the Department of Health. Further information is available in our current Annual Report and organisation chart.
Our Board meets six times a year and you can read the minutes & reports going back to 2003 for more information about our work.
Our Risk management strategy and a list of our internal policies are also available.
Board expenses
As a public body the NHSLA is committed to ensuring it operates according to the Nolan principles of public life by being open and accountable for the way public funds are used.
Each quarter, the Authority will publish the business expenses claimed by our Chair, Chief Executive, Non-Executive Directors and Finance Director whose remuneration is reported in our annual accounts.
Read the latest expenses reports: January 2011 to March 2011, April 2011 to June 2011, July 2011 to September 2011 and October 2011 to December 2011.
Good corporate citizen
The Authority takes its responsibilities as a corporate citizen seriously and has an action plan to address issues of sustainability across all its activities, using the Good Corporate Citizen model developed for NHS organisations by the Sustainable Development Commission.