NEW Blog: Professor Bob Hudson on public accountability in NHS

Where does accountability lie within the NHS? CHSS Visiting Professor Bob Hudson writes that the current ways of the healthcare system make public scrutiny and citizen accountability opaque and increasingly incomprehensible to outsiders. He argues that engaging with citizens is key to giving the healthcare debate legitimacy.

For the past forty years, Professor Hudson has been a well-known political commentator and leading academic in the field of integrated care. He became an Honorary member of CHSS in 2015 and is currently working with Professors Stephen Peckham and Jenny Billings.

In this blog post he argues that the current ways of the healthcare system make public scrutiny and citizen accountability opaque and increasingly incomprehensible to outsiders. He believes that engaging with citizens is key to giving the healthcare debate legitimacy.

Read the blog here