NHS Confederation and NHS Providers respond to Intensive Recovery programme
Responding to the announcement of an Intensive Recovery programme to support struggling NHS trusts, Matthew Taylor interim chief executive of the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers (which from April will become the NHS Alliance) said:
"The British Social Attitudes survey shows the NHS has started to turn a corner but there is a long way to go before public satisfaction levels are back to where they should be.
"The Secretary of State is right to focus on areas of the country where performance levels are lagging. It's good to see he recognises that this is not down to poor local leadership, but instead often the result of historic structural issues that have never been properly addressed.
"Local NHS leaders will value the government's backing for difficult changes to local services that are required to enhance safety and improve quality of care. Too often these changes have been blocked because they have been deemed by successive governments as being too politically difficult to back.
"We need to back local leaders to deliver these changes and continue to support and incentivise leaders to take on the most difficult NHS jobs in the country. That's why we welcome the focus of the government's new Intensive Recovery programme on improvement and support rather than naming and shaming NHS organisations."
