Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The NHS does what is says on the tin. It provides a national health service. That is to say one where equal and consistent services are available across the country.
That has only been achieved by a command-and-control approach to running the service. Ever since the health service was formed in 1948, national plans have been issued and national plans have been followed.
But could the new boss of the NHS in England, Simon Stevens, be set to break the mould? Over the course of the past week - firstly in his interview with the Daily Telegraph and then in his speech to the NHS Confederation conference - one thing has stood out above everything else: his emphasis on the local.
At the end of last week he told the newspaper he sees a role for local hospitals in the face of the perceived wisdom that they should be scaled down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27719958
That has only been achieved by a command-and-control approach to running the service. Ever since the health service was formed in 1948, national plans have been issued and national plans have been followed.
But could the new boss of the NHS in England, Simon Stevens, be set to break the mould? Over the course of the past week - firstly in his interview with the Daily Telegraph and then in his speech to the NHS Confederation conference - one thing has stood out above everything else: his emphasis on the local.
At the end of last week he told the newspaper he sees a role for local hospitals in the face of the perceived wisdom that they should be scaled down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27719958
