Today I am at the Convention Centre in Liverpool for the first ever Foundation Trust Network national conference. I’m on the platform on a couple of panels to talk about quality and regulation (of which more later).
It’s interesting that after eight years this is the first ever FT Network conference. Structurally there is a difficult relationship between Foundation Trusts and the rest of the NHS Confederation family. In the same way the Confederation will have a different relationship with the clinical commissioning groups than it did with the PCTs. Both of these sets of organisations, FTs and CCGs have been created to be different from previous NHS institutions.
