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Jun 2015
Extensive parts of NHS placed into special measures after ‘decades’ of failure
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, has announced that half of Cumbria, the majority of Devon and the whole of Essex is to be placed under national supervision.
Troubleshooters will be sent to the failing hospitals, to tackle A&E departments that persistently breach waiting times and failures to stick to budgets.
The three main health regulators, the Care Quality Commission, the Trust Development Authority and Monitor, will be enlisted to supervise the health trusts in these regions.
Speaking at the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Liverpool, Mr Stevens said that in order to get to the roots of the problems, a longer term view needs to be taken.
Mr Stevens said “The idea here is that we are going to collectively, both locally and nationally, bring the full range of flexibilities and say “What is our holistic diagnosis as to what needs to change?” Hopefully you will also see that it recognises that we get the fact that the existing models of trying to sort some of these knotty problems out needs to evolve.”
He went on to say “We all know there are parts of the country that are in systematic imbalance, in terms of either their quality or the structure of their services, or their ability to make the money work. And they have been in imbalance for years, if not decades.
“We coined the phrase a “success regime” rather than a “failure regime” as a different way of having a structured intervention to put those places on to a sustainable footing.”
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