Two top CEOs argue ‘hospital groups are here to stay’

Two of the most successful NHS hospital chief executives – one current, Glen Burley, and one former, Dame Alwen Williams – join the HSJ Health Check podcast, arguing that the sometimes-contentious spread of the ‘group model’ and joint leadership will keep on spreading.

The Foundation Group CEO and former boss of Barts Health Trust – one of the mothers of the hospital group model in the NHS – also talk about how to make it work, managing exec time, staying in touch with the front line, and what it means for accountability.

And NHS management trainee Brigid McMorrow speaks about her analysis for HSJ which found one in three trusts now have a joint chair and/or CEO, often as part of a group model or a move towards merger.

You can read that analysis here: https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/one-in-three-trusts-now-share-ceo-or-chair/7036353.article

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