Not a week seems to go by without politicians attacking NHS “pen pushers” But far from being dispensable deadweights, the best managers can genuinely transform a hospital, writes paulwaugh
Caulfield appeared to make a stab at redefining the pledge, suggesting it wasn’t the size of waiting lists that mattered as much as the length of the waiting times individuals experienced.No 10 later said it was still “committed to reducing waiting lists overall, but rightly focusing on those who have been waiting the longest”. This remains, however, one of the most politically tricky of all of those five Sunak promises.
. They are the ones who work with clinicians to find better ways of working, of innovating on what works best to retain staff and what to prioritise locally. The report made some valuable recommendations, such as expanding the degree of oversight of and support for leaders and managers by the Care Quality Commission, more management training and take-up of best practice measures in underperforming hospitals.
And here too, there are some solutions that need more political will. One of the biggest hits to recruitment of nurses and midwives in England in recent years was the short-sighted decision under David Cameron to scrap the student bursary that was worth more than £16,000 a year.between 2016 and 2018. Boris Johnson partially reversed the cut, but it still falls short of restoring free student tuition.
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