HSJ 9 September 2015
- Jeremy Hunt has said there are ‘too many trusts’ in the NHS and the health service needs to ‘up the pace’ of work on hospital chains and other provider reforms.
- Where you have smart managers… those people and their teams, because they’ve all built up very good teams around them, would be quite capable of running multiple hospitals, and we should be tapping into their ability to do that.
- “I’d say exactly the same thing for smart GP practices, and I’d say exactly the same thing for our best [clinical commissioning groups]. I think we need to allow people who have proven they are able to manage big healthcare organisations… to be able to use those talents more broadly.”
- Asked if he could imagine the development of a non-geographically contiguous chain of CCGs, he said: “I absolutely can.”
