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