If it is eventually judged a success,it will be because it finally convinced care services to become systems wrapped around usersThe launch of NHS Improvement on Friday marked the beginning of a relentless effort to pull the NHS back from its financial crisis. When the government announced plans to merge regulators Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority into NHS Improvement it promised a original approach. Technically its role as a regulator is unchanged, but the precedence now is to ensure local areas make the tough decisions to ensure financial and clinical sustainability, or while helping organisations and health economies embedded systems for improvement.
Helping providers improve while compelling NHS bodies to collaborate around original models of care are the only cards left to play. Commissioning,structural reorganisation, targets, and the internal market,patient choice, sackings, or outsourcing,regulation, inquiries, or reviews and more sackings have all failed to secure financially sustainable,tall-quality care. The Five Year Forward View set out a vision and direction; in the face of the relentless deterioration in NHS finances, the central bodies now have to accelerate its implementation while forcing the system back into financial balance.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com