Minute Book for journalists
Board papers are where NHS organisations say in public what went wrong and what they plan to do. Search them across the UK alongside coroners’ reports, and quote each passage with its source.
What you can do with it
- Find stories in the detail of board and committee papers: money, staffing, waiting times and safety.
- Check what a trust or health board said in public, and when, before you publish.
- Follow the trusts, health boards and integrated care boards on your patch, and see their new papers in one place.
- Quote accurately: every passage comes with its page, the meeting date and a link to the original.
Searches to try
- "corridor care"
Patients cared for in corridors, as boards have described it.
- "agency spend"
What boards were told about spending on agency staff.
- "never event"
Serious incidents that should never happen, as reported to boards.
- "Freedom to Speak Up"
Reports from the guardians staff can raise concerns with.
Searching is free, with no account. Results come from the papers we hold, and we don’t hold every organisation’s papers for every year. See which years we hold for each organisation.
What helps most
Follow organisations
Follow any organisation from its page, free and with no limit. Your Alerts page lists its new papers and the coroners’ reports sent to it, newest first. A weekly email tells you what’s new, or a daily one if you prefer.
Watched phrases
Watch a phrase everywhere, in one nation or at one organisation. When new papers or coroners’ reports mention it, we email you the passage with a link to the source.
Draft and approved minutes compared
Minutes are often published before the board approves them. We check again after 3 days, a week and a month, and show what changed in the approved version.
Citations ready to paste
Every result has Copy reference: a simple reference, or OSCOLA, Harvard or Vancouver, or a download for Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley. Each gives the page, the meeting date and the original’s address.
Coroners’ reports and the 56-day tracker
Prevention of Future Deaths reports from judiciary.uk, with who each was sent to. Recipients have 56 days to respond: for each one we show the deadline and whether a response is published on judiciary.uk.
The plan that suits you: Journalist
£29 a month or £290 a year
A press rate for reporters, editors and producers, staff or freelance. After you subscribe, a person checks that you work as a journalist.
- Open our copy of documents with no monthly limit, where the publisher allows it
- 25 watched phrases
- Folders with no limit on saved items
- Searching, following and a link to every original, as on Free
Start with the organisations you watch
Create a free account, then follow an organisation from its page. No card needed, and a link to every original is always free.