Steven Howell reports on a round table debate, that forms part of a wider research project looking at the new health and public health landscape.

Fans of the BBC's Casualty might be used to the frenetic action of an A&E ward, featuring the expected array of doctors, nurses and paramedics and associated melodrama, but perhaps soon we'll see the recurring characters of Dr Jones, the local GP lead, or 'Councillor Friendly', the helpful health and wellbeing board chair, discussing the merits of a payment by results system over coffee at the nurse's station. Or perhaps not.