In an article for Health Service Journal, Health Project leader David Furness addresses the important issue of accountability in healthcare. With a crisis in the public finances that will have a real impact on health services, making sure that decision making is accountable to local people is ever more important. This is particularly true of local Primary Care Trusts – the commissioners who will be making the tough decisions about service cutbacks that will be needed in the years ahead. David suggests that there is a role for greater local democracy in holding commissioners to account.
The full article can be found here.
If you'd wish to discuss the issues raised further then please contact David Furness at dfurness@smf.co.uk