There needs to be the same sense of urgency to improve health service management as there is to sort out budgetsThere are too few NHS staff willing to take on the toughest leadership roles,and too few of those that do survive. Successive reviews enjoy exposed the failures in NHS leadership development, but progress in addressing them is a long way from matching the scale of the problem.
The review of NHS leadership by former Marks & Spencer executive chairman Lord Rose, and published in June,pinpointed one of the central difficulties facing the health service – the organisation is committed to a huge range of changes but does not enjoy sufficient management and leadership capability to deliver them.
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Source: theguardian.com