Video: The NHS 'should offer the safest, highest quality care anywhere in the world'

2016-03-30T00:01:00+01:00

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HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.

Present were BMA council member and Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group chair Sir Sam Everington, Health Foundation chief executive Jennifer Dixon and Central and North West London Foundation Trust chief executive Claire Murdoch, as well as HSJ editor Alastair McLellan. The first part of the conversation focused on safety and quality.

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