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I'm speaking from the NHS Confed conference in Manchester, late June 2012, where we've
had three days of truly exciting interaction with a wide variety of people from across
the whole of the NHS community. A very exciting, interesting time for the commissioning Board.
We've now completed the appointments of the executive team and non-executive directors
to the board. We've got an opportunity to blend all the experience and insite that the
non-execs bring with the experience and insight that the executives bring of the NHS, into
driving improvements in outcomes for patients right across the NHS and I think it's been
tremendously important to us at the Confed conference to engage with the partners that
we'll be working with. The Board isn't in charge of the NHS. We're going to have of
course an exceptionally powerful influence, but it's not about how we spend our money
or how we try and organise our affairs, but very much about behaviours and cultures and
attitudes and high on that list for me is the way in which we work closely with the
other actors in the NHS lanscape. All around a common purpose, if you summarise the common
purpose it's about driving better outcomes for patients consistently, using inovation,
trying to find new ways of doing things, improving the quality of care and improving the quality
of the patient experience so that the NHS can continue to be one of the best systems
in the world, in fact be the best system in the world.