Last Wednesday I ran a session with about 60 people in London, all of whom were involved in the governance of NHS commissioning over the next 16 months. As you can imagine, given the confusion around who is commissioning what, there was a broad range of different organisations represented. Most of them were non-executive directors of PCTs, PCT sub-clusters and PCT clusters. This led to much jesting about whether their title would have changed at the end of the meeting from the one they had at the beginning – a whole 2 hours later. (Yes I know – what a sad world I live in where this passes for jest!)

Together with this group were a number of board members from pathfinder CCGs and some local authority members of shadow Health and Wellbeing Boards.