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Hospital Stakeholders: 100 People, Teams and Organisations

by | reviewed 30/08/2026

This is a hospital-specific stakeholder checklist for identifying the people, teams and external organisations involved in running, using or supporting a hospital.

It is particularly useful for hospital projects, service changes, estates work, digital implementations, operational improvement and other work taking place within or directly affecting a hospital.

Hospital stakeholders or healthcare stakeholders?

Use this page when the focus is a hospital or hospital service. It includes clinical teams, hospital management, operational and support staff, patients, carers and organisations that interact directly with the hospital.

If your work covers the wider healthcare system — for example primary care, commissioners and funders, public health, healthcare providers, researchers, charities and system-wide regulators — use our examples of stakeholders in healthcare instead.

There are 100 hospital stakeholders listed below. Job titles vary between countries and organisations, so use the list as a prompt rather than assuming every role will apply to every hospital.

Word cloud of the Stakeholders in Hospitals

How the hospital stakeholder list is organised

The original list uses three stakeholder types adapted from the hospital stakeholder categorisation discussed by Fottler et al.:

  • Internal stakeholders — people and teams working within the hospital, including clinical, operational, administrative and support staff.
  • External stakeholders — people and organisations outside the hospital that use, influence, regulate, supply or are affected by hospital services.
  • Interface stakeholders — stakeholders whose role connects the hospital with external organisations, services or communities.

Some roles could reasonably fit more than one category. The classification is therefore best used as a prompt for stakeholder identification rather than as a strict organisational model. See Fottler et al. in the references below.

List of 100 hospital stakeholders

Work through the list and select the roles relevant to your hospital, service or project. Consider both the people who deliver hospital services and those who depend on, influence or support them.

Key Hospital Stakeholders Stakeholder Type
Accident and Emergency Staff Internal
Accreditation (licensing agencies) External
Assistant Practitioners Internal
Associations e.g. Muslim Doctors Association (United Kingdom) External
Audiologists Internal
Board of trustees Interface
Cardio-Respiratory Team Internal
Carers External
Catering Staff Internal
Charge Hands Internal
Charge Nurses Internal
Chefs Internal
Chief Executive Internal
Chief Financial Officer Internal
Chief Nursing Officer Internal
Civil servants (United Kingdom) External
Clinical Coders Internal
Commissioners Interface
Community Health Centers External
Corporate office Interface
Download this Stakeholder List in PDF
Download this Stakeholder List in PDF
Key Hospital Stakeholders Stakeholder Type
Department of Health and Social Care (United Kingdom) External
Dietitians Internal
Dining Assistants Internal
Discharge Co-coordinators Internal
Doctors (On Hospital staff) Internal
Domestic Staff Internal
Elected public officials External
Electro-Biomedical Engineers Internal
Estate Technicians Internal
Federal government (United States) External
General Practitioners (United Kingdom) External
Health and Social Care Regulators e.g. General Medical Council (United Kingdom) External
Health maintenance organizations External
Health Visitors Interface
Health workers External
Healthcare Assistants Internal
Hospital management Internal
Housekeepers Internal
Labor unions External
Laundry Staff Internal
Local authority (United Kingdom) External
Local business/industry External
Local residents External
Local service providers External
Maintenance Staff Internal
Maternity Support Worker Internal
Matrons Internal
Matron's Assistants Internal
Maxillofacial Nurses Internal
Media External
Medical Imaging Assistants Internal
Medical school officials Interface
Medical staff Interface
Medical Students Interface
Medical Technicians Internal
Midwives Internal
Newborn Hearing Screeners Internal
Non physician professional staff Internal
Nonprofessional staff Internal
Nurse Specialists Internal
Nurses Internal
Occupational Therapists Internal
Oral Surgery Nurses Internal
Other hospitals External
Outpatient Staff Interface
Painters and Decorators Internal
Paramedics Internal
Patients External
Payroll Officers Internal
Pharmacists Interface
Phlebotomists Internal
Physicians Interface
Physiotherapists Internal
Play Specialists Internal
Political pressure groups External
Porters Internal
Practice Education Facilitators Internal
Quality Assurance Staff Internal
Radiographers Internal
Receptionist Staff Internal
Referrers e.g. Doctors, Interface
Secretary of State for Health (UK ministerial role in government) External
Security Internal
Senior Nurses Internal
Sisters Internal
Social Workers Interface
Speech Therapist Internal
Staff Nurse Internal
State government External
Sterile Services Department Internal
Stores Team Internal
Surgeons Internal
Therapies Assistant Internal
Third party payers External
USA Department of Health and Human Services External
Visitors External
Volunteers e.g. friends of the hospital External
Walk-in clinics External
Ward Clerks Internal
Ward Managers Internal

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References

Fottler, Myron D.; Blair, John D.; Whitehead, Carlton J.; Laus, Michael D.; Savage G.; 1989. Assessing key stakeholders: Who matters to hospitals and why? Hospital and Health Services Administration; Winter 1989; 34, 4; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 525. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1300255

Need the wider healthcare system?

This page is deliberately focused on hospitals. For stakeholders across the wider health and care system, see Examples of Stakeholders in Healthcare .

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