Transparency¶

OHTF asks the projects it looks after to work in the open. It should be held to the same standard. So we publish our own founding documents, decisions, finances and operations by default, including much that Companies House and the CIC Regulator do not require us to publish.

Why this matters to health buyers in particular is set out in why we publish so much.

The test we apply is simple: if a reasonable member of the public, a contributor or an NHS organisation would want to know it, and publishing it harms nobody, we publish it.

Published documents¶

What we publish¶

Companies House requires a CIC to file annual accounts, and the CIC Regulator requires an annual community interest report. We publish both, and go further:

• Finances. Income and where it comes from, what we spend it on, and how service income funds maintenance of the open projects.
• Directors and related parties. Who the directors are, what, if anything, they are paid, and any transactions between OHTF and organisations connected to its directors.
• Decisions. Summaries of board decisions, except where they concern individuals' personal matters or confidential negotiations.
• Operations. For hosted services: availability, incidents and how they were resolved.

What we do not publish¶

Transparency should never cost someone else their privacy or safety. We do not publish:

• personal contact details, signatures or other personal data;
• information that would expose a security vulnerability before it is fixed (see the security policy);
• confidential information belonging to a partner or customer, where we have agreed to keep it confidential; and
• anything we are legally prevented from publishing.

Where we hold something back, we say so and, where we can, say why. Redactions in published documents are marked.