Poor leadership and chasing targets ‘hampers patient care’ - The Times 4th January 2008

Patient care has suffered repeatedly because of poor management and bureaucracy in the NHS, according to a report by the healthcare watchdog. A lack of leadership, inadequate team-working and focusing too much on government targets emerged as common themes in the Healthcare Commission’s review of its 13 major investigations between 2004 and 2007. It concluded that some boards were focused on mergers between organisations after a shake-up of NHS trusts, or on meeting targets at the expense of patient care.

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