Nuffield Summit 2017 - Reducing Demand

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As the NHS strains under pressure from rising patient activity, an ageing population, and financial constraints, The BMJ hosted a discussion on how clinicians should be helping to manage demand at last week’s Nuffield Trust health policy summit. Taking part are: - Eileen Burns, president of the British Geriatrics Society - Andrew Fernando, GP and medical director of North Hampshire Urgent Care - Candace Imison, director of policy at the Nuffield Trust - Martin Marshall, vice chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners - Amanda Philpott, chief officer of two clinical commissioning groups - Maxine Power, director of innovation and improvement science at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust - Jeremy Taylor, chief executive of the charities’ coalition National Voices - Judith Smith, director of the Health Services Management Centre - Ashok Soni, chair of NHS England’s local professional network for pharmacy in London Listen to all of our other Nuffield Summit Roundtables: http://www.bmj.com/nuffieldsummit