MPs ask about changes to health service provision

• Watch the meeting: Commissioning: further issues
• Health Committee

MPs from the Commons Health Committee will ask how well the proposed changes to NHS Commissioning will reconfigure hospital services such as A&E or maternity - through merger, centralisation or relocation into the community - and eliminate debt in local health economies.

Witnesses

• Mr John Black, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Ms Alwen Williams CBE, Chief Executive, East London and the City Alliance PCT cluster
• Dr Paul Hobday, Kent Local Medical Committee Spokesperson & BMA Maidstone Branch Chair
• Sean Boyle, Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics

At 11.45 am

• Suzanne Tracey, President, Healthcare Financial Management Association & Director of Finance and Business Development, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
• Noel Plumridge, independent consultant and writer on NHS finances
•  Andy McKeon, Managing Director for Health, Audit Commission
•  Professor Margaret Whitehead, Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool

Further Information

• About Parliament: Select Committee
• Visitng Parliament: Watch Committees