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After the health bill - what next?
With the future of the Health and Social Care bill more certain, how will the health service react to the legislative changes? At this year's Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit, the BMJ's editor Fiona Godlee hosted a round table to discuss this question.
Taking part were:
David Bennett, Chairman and CEO, Monitor
Paul Corrigan, Management consultant, Southside
Penny Dash, McKinseys
Nigel Edwards, Kings Fund
Clare Gerada, RCGP
Gareth Goodier, CEO, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge
Alastair McLellan, Editor, Health Services Journal
James Morrow, GP, Sawston, Cambridge
Judith Smith, Nuffield Trust
Simon Stevens, CEO, Global Health, United Health Group, USA
Helen Thomas, Medical Director, Sentinel Commissioning, Plymouth
For more from the summit, and to watch some of the keynote speeches, go to the Nuffield Trust site.
Audio chapters:
How will life be different under the bill?: 1:25
How will competition affect reconfiguration?: 16:28
CCGs' lack of strategic thinking: 23:11
Future of population/public health: 31:9
How to bring joy back into healthcare: 35:57
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