The NHS Confederation is the membership body for the full range of organisations that commission and provide NHS services Our members include acute trusts, ambulance trusts, clinical commissioning groups, community health service providers, foundation trusts, mental health providers, primary care trusts and a growing number of independent and voluntary sector healthcare organisations that deliver services within the NHS We work with our members and health and social care partners to help the NHS guarantee high standards of care for patients and best value for taxpayers by We believe in a national health service that is available to all and is based on clinical need not an individual's ability to pay We also believe that the NHS can continually improve the care it delivers for patients and the public