The likely transition to a smaller acute sector, managers’ ‘hopeless’ promotion of change and a controversial proposal to reshape services all provoked lively debate at an HSJ roundtable on the future of hospitals, in association with McKinsey
Roundtable participants
- Alastair McLellan, HSJ editor and roundtable chair
- Dr Penny Dash, principal, McKinsey
- Candace Imison, deputy director of policy, The King’s Fund
- Dr Mark Newbold, chief executive of Heart of England Foundation Trust
- Dr Linda Patterson, clinical vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians
- Dr Charles Alessi, interim chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners
- Dr Gordon Coutts, chief executive of Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust
- Dr Mark Goldman, independent healthcare consultant and interim chief executive
- Michael Watson, operations director at Circle
- Sir Len Fenwick, chief executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust
- Peter Griffiths, chair of the Foundation Trust Network and chair at Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation Trust
- Mandy Wearne, director of service experience at NHS North West
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