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NHS local discussion: GP Commissioning

NHS local invited some influential people from the West Midlands health economy to discuss how the proposed changes to the NHS will affect people in the region. In a lively debate called 'Liberating the NHS?' hosted at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, a panel of four featuring Ian Cumming, OBE, chief executive of NHS West Midlands, Dr Andrew Coward, chair of the South Birmingham Integrated Care Commissioning consortium, Sue Davis, CBE, chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, and Jenny McCrorie, chair of Cleobury Patients'Voice, were asked questions on the impact of change on health services by NHS local presenter Charlotte Hume. They were joined in the discussion, which was recorded shortly before the establishment of the NHS Future Forum, by an invited audience featuring representatives of senior hospital clinicians, patient groups, healthcare workers' unions and doctors and nurses in training. The first topic of discussion was the impact of perhaps the biggest change ahead for the NHS, the arrival of GP commissioning. GP-led consortia will soon control up to 80 per cent of the NHS budget in England. Instead of PCTs deciding on how money is spent on patient care in hospitals, it will be consortia of family doctors. So what will this mean for patients and for the people who work in the NHS and in other organisations that deliver healthcare?