Tories order biggest shake-up of NHS leadership in England for 40 years

[Northerner]

The Conservatives have ordered a shake-up of NHS leadership in England on the eve of their party conference, with Sajid Javid saying that with more funding must come “change for the better”.

The health secretary said he wanted to see the most far-reaching review of NHS bosses in England for 40 years, appointing a former vice-chief of the defence staff, Gen Sir Gordon Messenger, to lead the work.

However, some NHS bosses were furious about what they described as a political move to shift blame on to trust, hospital and social care leaders as the health service struggles with a big backlog.

Under the terms of the review, Messenger will be asked to look at the best hospitals, GPs’ services and social care delivery to work out how this can be replicated across the country.

Tory sources said it was not about a reorganisation of leadership structure or apportioning blame for failure but “identifying the best leadership, finding out why it’s so good and looking at how we roll it out more widely”. They said it was a key plank of “levelling up”.

Tories order biggest shake-up of NHS leadership in England for 40 years

Calls by Sajid Javid for far-reaching review described as ‘slap in the face’ by health service bosses

www.theguardian.com

 

[grovesy]

I watched a commons committee meeting on health a few weeks ago, and one of the experts was saying that what works in one area does not translate to working in another.

 

[Burylancs]

The Conservatives have ordered a shake-up of NHS leadership in England on the eve of their party conference, with Sajid Javid saying that with more funding must come “change for the better”.

The health secretary said he wanted to see the most far-reaching review of NHS bosses in England for 40 years, appointing a former vice-chief of the defence staff, Gen Sir Gordon Messenger, to lead the work.

However, some NHS bosses were furious about what they described as a political move to shift blame on to trust, hospital and social care leaders as the health service struggles with a big backlog.

Under the terms of the review, Messenger will be asked to look at the best hospitals, GPs’ services and social care delivery to work out how this can be replicated across the country.

Tory sources said it was not about a reorganisation of leadership structure or apportioning blame for failure but “identifying the best leadership, finding out why it’s so good and looking at how we roll it out more widely”. They said it was a key plank of “levelling up”.

Tories order biggest shake-up of NHS leadership in England for 40 years

Calls by Sajid Javid for far-reaching review described as ‘slap in the face’ by health service bosses

www.theguardian.com

Privatising By Stealth more like, as they've done with the schools.

 

[mikeyB]

The actual shake-up doesn't trouble me as much as the guy that they have put in charge, former vice chief of the defence staff, and who worked as head of operations for the community testing programme, Gen Sir Gordon Messenger.

Defence and the MoD as a whole are the worst managed service in the UK, inefficient, profligate, and useless at worker management. I know, I've worked for the MoD. And the least said about the community testing programme the better. It was ludicrously expensive and grossly inefficient. In Scotland they only used the folk who normally worked in environmental health to do the testing, and worked efficiently, and answerable to the routine health management structure.

God alone knows what this overinflated idiot will do to the NHS, with his experience of running inefficient organisations. What exactly makes that buffoon in Downing St think he is the right man for the job?

Furthermore, this is only a distraction - blame NHS inefficiency for the backlogs - rather than the chronic underfunding that has gone on since 2010, when the Tories began their current reign, added to layers of management structures that don't exist in other countries in the UK. I once went to the shiny new hospital in Blackburn, and wheeling past the shops and following the painted lines to outpatients, I passed more people carrying clipboards than ever I saw any white coats and stethoscopes, or nurses moving about. The only clipboard I saw in Scotland was the lady who came round the wards to check on our food requirements for the next meal.