Our Principles

Our Principles

The Edith Ellen Foundation provides a comprehensive service available to all.

This principle applies irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity or marital or civil partnership status.

The Foundation is designed to highlight, identify and improve failing standards within the Healthcare Sector.

It has a duty to each and every individual that it serves and must respect their human rights.

At the same time, it has a wider social duty to promote equality through the services it provides and to pay particular attention to groups or sections of society where improvements in health and life expectancy are not keeping pace with the rest of the population.

Access to Edith Ellen Services is based on need, not an individual’s ability to pay

Edith Ellen Service such as our Befriending Scheme are free of charge.

The Edith Ellen aspires to the highest standards of excellence and professionalism in the provision of high-quality care that is safe, effective and focused on patient experience in the people it employs, and in the support, education, training and development they receive in the leadership and management of its organisations and through its commitment to innovation and to the promotion, conduct and use of research to improve the current and future health and care of the population

Respect, dignity, compassion and care should be at the core of how patients and staff are treated – not only because that is the right thing to do, but because patient safety, experience and outcomes are all improved when staff are valued, empowered and supported.

The Edith Ellen aspires to put Service Users at the heart of everything it does.

It should support individuals to promote and manage their own health.

Edith Ellen services must reflect, and should be coordinated around and tailored to, the needs and preferences of patients, their families and their carers.

The Edith Ellen will actively encourage feedback from the public, patients and staff, welcome it and use it to improve its services.

The Edith Ellen works across organisational boundaries and in partnership with other organisations in the interest of patients, local communities and the wider population.

The Edith Ellen is committed to working jointly with other local authority services, other public sector organisations and a wide range of private and voluntary sector organisations to provide and deliver improvements in health and wellbeing.

The Edith Ellen is committed to providing best value for charitable money and the most effective, fair and sustainable use of finite resources.

Fundraising Funds for healthcare will be devoted solely to the benefit of the people that the Edith Ellen serves.

The Edith Ellen is accountable to the public, and communities that it serves.

The system of responsibility and accountability for taking decisions in the Edith Ellen should be transparent and clear to the public, patients and staff.