George Odam

George Odam is a retired Professor of Music at Bath Spa University, a former patient governor at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, and an active 38 Degrees member.

Are England’s small specialist hospitals becoming an endangered species?

In the first of a new series of dispatches from the frontline of England's National Health Service, published in association with 38 Degrees, Professor George Odam paints a worrying picture of the future of small specialist hospitals in the UK - and the limits of the "Foundation Trust" model.

By George Odam

/ 27 Jun 2013