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Government plans ‘single set of management standards’ for the NHS


A government review of health and care leadership has recommended a single set of ‘core leadership and management standards’ for NHS managers.

The report by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard calls for “consistent management standards delivered through accredited training”, according to a government statement this morning.

The full document has yet to be published but the statement summarises the findings and says an “institutional inadequacy” has formed in the way leadership and management is trained and developed in the NHS.

It says the report has produced seven recommendations, which have all been accepted in full by the health and social care secretary Sajid Javid, who said they must be taken forward “urgently”.

Among them is a call for a more “effective and consistent” appraisal system to reduce variation in how performance is managed. This is after the review concluded a greater focus was needed on “how people have behaved [and] not just what they have achieved”.

The recommendations do not include any registration system for NHS managers, despite calls from some over many years for more regulation of the roles, nor appear to include specific reform of the “fit and proper person” test, which has been discredited and under review.

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Source: HSJ, 8 June 2022

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