Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13 - Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Governance ReportAnalysis of current public membership (as at 31 March 2013)Public constituency Number of members Eligible membershipAge (years):0-16 67 247,27517-21 263 90,29022+ 9,448 1,030,803Ethnicity:White 10,701 1,256,864Mixed 55 10,405Asian or Asian British 49 13,705Black or Black British 25 4,410Other 44 8,023Socio-economic groupings:ABC1 6,768 445,461C2 1,966 153,064D 1,902 144,762E 619 38,020Gender analysis:Male 4,751 669,672Female 6,504 698,696Notes:l The analysis above excludes 1,477 public members with no stated date of birth and381 members with no stated ethnicity.l Socio-economic data should be completed using profiling techniques (e.g.postcode) or other recognised methods. Socio-economic data is only collected forworking age individuals as it is a classification based on occupation. To the extentsocio-economic data is not already collected from members, it is not anticipatedthat NHS foundation trusts will make a direct approach to members to collect thisinformation.l The population data used to calculate Eligible membership in the table above maydiffer as a result of using the most reliable source for this data. This may lead tovariations in the total of eligible members provided under each section of the table,primarily due to the currency of the data.Members who wish to communicate with their governors should contact:Governor Co-ordinator (B28)The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCastle Lane East, Bournemouth BH7 7DWor email: ftmembers@rbch.nhs.uk120Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13