The number of Government targets that NHS bosses need to hit should be slashed to no more than 10, official review says
need to hit should be slashed to no more than 10 so that local organisations have more control over their services, a new review has said.administration of the health serviceShe recommended that the total number of nationally set targets be cut down from dozens to just a handful;Senior ministers have said privately that they would like the NHS to be run along similar lines to England’s schools system, with local groups largely freed to set their own priorities under a looser national framework.
Ms Hewitt, who was health secretary under Tony Blair from 2005 to 2007, warned: “The combination of too many targets, performance standards that are not clinically supported and an excessive focus on hitting targets by managers or boards themselves can lead to ‘gaming’ of the targets or even a disastrous neglect of patients themselves.”
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