UK-Worthing: financial auditing services
Sussex Partnership wishes to appoint external auditors from 1.10.2010 for a three year term, with an option to extent for a further two years, to provide the Trust with an external audit service that meets the requirements of the National Health Service Act 2006 (the Act) and the Audit Code for NHS Foundation Trusts as published by Monitor, the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts in October 2007 (the Code).
Criteria for selection to go forwared to ITT, will be based on the following four areas, each with a 25 % weighting these are;
1. The auditor must satisfy the criteria for appointment as an auditor of an NHS foundation trust, as set out in paragraph 23(4) of Schedule 7 of the 2006 Act;
2. The auditor must have an established and demonstrable standing within the healthcare sector and be able to show a high level of experience and expertise. The work is of a specialised nature, and so general audit experience is not sufficient;
3. The auditor must comply with the Audit Code for NHS foundation trusts; and
4. The auditor must subject the audit to internal quality control procedures which are sufficiently robust to monitor the compliance of the audit work with the Audit code for NHS foundation trusts.
