Open AccessInterview with Ian Cumming
Author(s) -
Andrew Severn
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
morecambe bay medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2634-0631
pISSN - 1466-707X
DOI - 10.48037/mbmj.v5i3.370
Subject(s) - management , executive director , primary care , psychology , medical education , political science , medicine , family medicine , economics
Ian Cumming was, at his appointment to the Lancaster Acute Hospitals Trust 11 years ago, the youngest chief executive in the NHS. The Journal finds him upbeat in his assessment of the future prospects for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB), and in his role as deputy chairman of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB), an unrepentant and pragmatic reformer. His move this month to head the new North Lancashire Primary Care Trust offers him new opportunities to see through some of his more ambitious plans for Morecambe Bay.