Charity Details

Royal Edinburgh Hospital Patients Council

SC021800Registered charity from 24 June 1993

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Documents overdue: 4 months, 17 days

This charity failed to provide all of the information on its finances by its annual submission deadline.

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This charity failed to provide all of the information on its finances by its annual submission deadline.

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By Patients Council

Address Patients Council
Andrew Duncan Clinic
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Morningside Terrace
Edinburgh

Postcode EH10 5HF

Website www.rehpatientscouncil.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

2.2.1 To promote the rights of patients and ex-patients. 2.2.2 To address concerns raised by patients and ex-patients about services. 2.2.3 To resolve these concerns by working jointly to encourage changes and developments in services with hospital staff and management. 2.2.4 To facilitate the representation of patients' and ex-patients' views and opinions to the hospital, to health service management and to statutory organisations (e.g. MWC), as appropriate. 2.2.5 To act as a link with other patient groups and networks locally and nationally. 2.2.6 To raise awareness of the views of patients and ex-patients and collective advocacy issues at training events, conferences and other forums.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

To provide independent collective advocacy to patients and former patients of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital; to promote their human and civil rights, address their concerns and improve their services by facilitating regular group advocacy meetings and by taking these advocacy issues to statutory decison-makers in the hope that they will address their collective concerns. To provide advocacy and human rights-awareness raising training to the citizens of Edinburgh and to produce research and policy to support all the above activities.

Charity Status: Not Submitted

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 24 Jun 1993

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 8

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of health", "the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation"

Beneficiaries: "People with disabilities or health problems"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2021	£6,717	£5,453	08 Mar 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£53,698	£29,275	16 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£50,653	£47,191	13 Feb 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£132,620	£109,224	19 Dec 2024	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
31 Mar 2025			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2025
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
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