This report outlines the work we've done over the past year to improve the quality of care we deliver across the North West, and also sets out our priorities for the next year.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Annual Report highlights the progress which has been made over the previous year to achieve our EDI objectives.

The NHS provider licence forms part of the oversight arrangements for the NHS. It sets out conditions that providers of NHS-funded healthcare services in England must meet to help ensure that the health sector works for the benefit of patients, now and in the future. Section 6 – Continuity of Services of the Provider Licence contains CoS7 – Availability of Resources that requires NHS Providers not later than two months from the end of each Financial Year, to submit to NHS England a certificate as to the availability of the required resources for the period of 12 months commencing on the date of the certificate.