Jeremy Hunt: Doctors and nurses should be put in charge of hospitals

Jeremy Hunt: Doctors and nurses should be put in charge of hospitals Doctors and nurses should be put in charge of hospitals, the Health Secretary has said, as he announced new plans to put more clinicians in charge.

Jeremy Hunt suggested the creation of an NHS management class in the 1980s was a “mistake” which should now be reversed, with frontline staff trained up to run hospitals.

Just one in three NHS hospital chief executives are currently former practising doctors and nurses. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• More doctors and nurses to become leaders of the future Department of Health
• Jeremy Hunt attacks NHS middle managers and says doctors and nurses should be put in charge The Daily Mail
• More doctors to be recruited as NHS leaders OnMedica