Steve Barclay is NHS leadership’s worst ‘nightmare’ (HSJ, 6 July 2022)

Summary

“A real nightmare, vindictive, arrogant, a bully, hostile to the NHS and all its works, a micro-manager of the wrong things, views NHS management as bloated and profligate.”

As this amalgam of quotes from senior NHS leaders makes clear, never has a politician arrived in the post of health secretary (or health and social care secretary) trailing a worse reputation than Steve Barclay.