Why would doctors and nurses put themselves through the ordeal of NHS management?

Why would doctors and nurses put themselves through the ordeal of NHS management?

Jeremy Hunt wants to encourage more clinicians to take leadership roles, but his proposals won’t fix the problem
Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to distract attention from the growing problems across the health and care system betray a poor understanding of NHS management.

In his speech to the NHS Providers’ conference this week, Hunt asked whether the NHS “made a historic mistake in the 1980s by deliberately creating a manager class who were not clinicians”.
At its worst, NHS management is a reputational meat grinder. Guardian

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