By Vivienne Russell
13 April 2011
Local government and third sector leaders have been named as members of the NHS Future Forum, which will lead the ‘listening exercise’ on health reforms.
Joanna Killian, chief executive of Essex County Council, Geoff Alltimes, chief executive of Hammersmith & Fulham Borough Council, and David Rogers, chair of the Local Government Association’s health and wellbeing board, will all join the forum, it was announced today.
Representatives from the third sector include Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executive of Voluntary Organisations, and Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of the charity Turning Point.
The forum will be chaired by Professor Steve Field, a practising GP and former chair of the Royal College of GPs.
A full list of the members can be viewed here.
The forum will hold a series of national and regional events at which they will to the views of NHS staff, leaders and other stakeholders. It will also encourage pathfinder consortiums and early implementer health and wellbeing boards to come forward with the lessons they have learned so far.
At the Royal College of Nursing’s annual conference in Liverpool today, delegates passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and his handling of the health reforms.
