In recent years, NHS boards have often been preoccupied with financial performance, but they also have to engage with the quality of clinical care. A programme of work developed by The King's Fund, in partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing, has focused on the role of nurse executives in ...
The author reports on a workshop addressing future clinical staffing in different trust settings: the general acute hospital trust; the combined acute and community trust; the community/priority services health care trust; and the teaching hospital trust.
This paper discusses the role of a senior medical doctor on the board of NHS trusts who has to advise the board on medical matters and to lead the doctors within the organisation. The authors reflect on the views of medical directors who have discussed these issues with the authors ...