The Foundation Trust Network, which represents the vast majority of providers of NHS healthcare,  has issued a response to the consortium’s publication of two discussion documents this week.

Saffron Cordery, director of strategy at the Foundation Trust Network (FTN), said: “If national agreements were sufficiently flexible then foundation trusts (FTs) would continue to use them – there is much to be said for national frameworks with local flexibilities. But some FTs have found them too restrictive, and they have needed greater room to manoeuvre when responding to local conditions and the needs of their communities.”

Read the FTN’s response in full here (opens in new window).