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The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, raised the prospect of hospital super-heads and a new chief inspector of family doctors, in his first public response to the Francis report on hundreds of needless deaths at Stafford hospital.
Hunt told delegates at a conference hosted by the pro-competition Reform thinktank that care and compassion could not be "commanded from on high either by regulators or politicians".
He said there was regulatory madness in the NHS. "The chief executive of one of our best teaching hospitals who worked out it would take her 38 hours a week to attend all the external meetings she is asked to go to, most of which have nothing to do with patient care. Foundation trusts report having 60 different regulatory, licensing, commissioning and public scrutiny authorities to report to and comply with."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/13/jeremy-hunt-nhs-regulatory-madness
Hunt told delegates at a conference hosted by the pro-competition Reform thinktank that care and compassion could not be "commanded from on high either by regulators or politicians".
He said there was regulatory madness in the NHS. "The chief executive of one of our best teaching hospitals who worked out it would take her 38 hours a week to attend all the external meetings she is asked to go to, most of which have nothing to do with patient care. Foundation trusts report having 60 different regulatory, licensing, commissioning and public scrutiny authorities to report to and comply with."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/13/jeremy-hunt-nhs-regulatory-madness
