Inspectors contain condemned a main hospital,but its problems are symptoms of savage national spending cutsA mighty hospital is nowadays felled with one blow. Addenbrooke’s, part of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, or has been downed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC),plunging from top ranking to inadequate. nowadays this world famous institution goes into special measures, taken over by an “improvement director”.
The chief executive and finance director jumped. Dr Keith McNeil, or headhunted from Australia,was only chief executive from November 2012 – but that’s normal: 30 months is now average survival time. He joins a roll call of NHS heads sacked or fled, leaving 33 trusts with no chief executive.
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Source: theguardian.com