In brief
Stephen O’Brien MP, the Conservative Shadow Health Minister, joined us for the second of our three general election breakfast debates, and discussed his party's vision for the NHS.
He was joined on the panel by Sue Slipman, Director of the Foundation Trust Network, NHS Confederation and Jonathan Nicholls, Research Director – Health and NHS, Ipsos MORI, with the event chaired by Dr Anna Dixon, Acting Chief Executive of The King's Fund.
Reconfiguration
Stephen O'Brien discusses how he believes service change should be enabled at a local level.
Variability
Stephen O'Brien accepts that there will be a variability of services in the NHS, depending on location.
The social care consensus
Stephen O'Brien outlines his party's position on a possible cross-party consensus on social care.
