The future of secondary care

The healthcare landscape in the England is shifting, with cuts, competition and tendering some of the major changes. Secondary care must adapt to these, but how? Joining BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes to discuss the issues are:

Yi Mien Koh, chief executive of Whittington Health, London

Jan Filochowski, chief executive of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Fergus Gleeson, divisional director of Critical Care, Theatres, Diagnostics and Pharmacy at Oxford University Hospitals

Nigel Edwards, senior fellow at the King’s Fund

Derek Greatorex, chair of the South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group

And BMJ practice editor Mabel Chew talks to Ruth Reed (specialty registrar in child and adolescent psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford) and Mina Fazel (postdoctoral research fellow, Warneford Hospital Oxford) about why post-traumatic stress disorder is easily missed, and what clinicians should look out for.

See also;
Podcast of the full round table
How will secondary care need to shape up to survive? A round table discussion
Easily Missed? Post-traumatic stress disorder

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