‘Let the NHS learn from high street successes’ Three quarters of NHS services should be handed over to private companies in the next decade to encourage “disruptive innovation” in patient care, an ally of the new head of the NHS has urged. Health chiefs need to learn from supermarkets, the fashion industry, car makers and even pub companies on how to improve services, Paul Corrigan says in a report for the pro-market think-tank Reform. In an outspoken attack on a “false loyalty” to existing services, he says that the NHS puts the interests of organisations above the interests of patients, who often experience fragmented and variable care. Unlike every other high street service, the NHS looks the same as it did 50 years ago and needs to find new “business models” to offer better and cheaper care, he says in a report with Mike Parish, chief executive of the health company Care UK. While health chiefs say they want to transform care, they are culturally reluctant to consider the means necessary for radical change, they say. Professor Corrigan is seen as close to Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, with whom he served as a health adviser under Tony Blair. Mr Stevens has said that NHS bosses are too wedded to existing models, but has distanced himself for calls for privatisation. thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4122359.ece
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:23:40 +0000
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