Remuneration & Nomination Committee Assurance Report - February 2026
Meeting: Trust Board – Public Meeting
Date: 11 February 2026
Report Title: Remuneration & Nomination Committee Assurance Report
Agenda Item: PUB26/02/4.6
Committee Date: 17 December 2025 and 21 January 2026
Meeting Chair: Catherine Glickman, Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair
Meeting quorate: YES
Purpose: Assurance
| Link to EEAST Strategic Mission: | |
|---|---|
| Patient Mission | |
| Partnership Mission | |
| People Mission | X |
| Productivity Mission |
Summary of items considered at the meeting:
| Issue | Consideration | Resolution | Assurance |
|---|---|---|---|
| ET Case Settlement | The Chief People Officer briefed the Committee on an ET settlement proposal. | The Committee discussed the case and settlement proposal, specifically what the key learnings were for the future. The Committee supported the proposal as presented. | |
| Executive Well Being Plan | The Chief People Officer talked through Exec resilience, specifically how the Execs were using the team building work, buddying and taking regular holidays to enable them to carry out these demanding roles. | The Committee remarked on the collegiate nature of the team, offering support and collective ownership of significant change programmes. The NEDs agreed that they would buddy with Execs. | |
| ET Case Update | The Chief People Officer presented an update on current and closed cases in the last 12 months. | The Committee could see that the case load, whilst still high, was tightly managed and cases were being resolved. Disability cases were debated as these cases were the highest category, with work internally to address reasonable adjustments. | Reasonable |
| Very Senior Managers (VSM): Changes to Pay Framework | The VSM Pay Framework, effective 1.4.25, was shared with the Committee: it is designed to ensure value for money across all NHS organisations, focussing on transparency, performance and governance. It includes pay bands, salary setting guidelines, rewarding performance and governance. There were options on how EEAST could adopt the framework, which were put to the Committee for approval. | The Committee worked through their questions about the mechanics of the framework, then debated the options. The Committee approved the preferred option after detailed discussion, asking for more work to be done on the definitions and metrics of what would constitute ‘exceptional performance’. | |
| Fixed Term Contracts | The Chief People Officer shared that there were 22 staff on fixed term contracts, often linked to projects or externally funded work programmes. | The Committee felt that Fixed Term contracts were tightly managed and this update no longer needed to come to the Remco. The Committee supported contractors’ term lengths being monitored so staff and managers knew when contracts were ending. | Reasonable |
| RemCom Annual Report 2025/26 | The Committee received the Annual Report, Terms of Reference and 2026/27 Work plan. | The Committee approved the documents: which are now recommended to Board for approval. The Audit Committee will receive a summary of the effectiveness reviews. | |
| Fit & Proper Persons Test 2025/26 Submission | The outstanding 2 points on this year’s submission had been resolved: NHSE had confirmed the test was closed. | The Committee noted this. |
Matters for escalation or referral:
| Issue | Resolution | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| ToR and Agenda Plan | The Public Board is asked to approve the terms of reference and agenda plan. |
