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NHS is directed by bureaucrats who are “out of ideas” and obstruct the crucial reforms necessary to fix it, parliamentarians warn

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The NHS is led by bureaucrats who 'lack ideas' and are obstructing the necessary reforms to solve it, a condemnatory report of parliamentarians warns today (stock image)

The NHS is led by bureaucrats who ‘lack ideas’ and are obstructing the necessary reforms to solve it, a condemnatory report of parliamentarians warns today.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) discovered that although the Government’s ambitions to review the health service represent a ‘golden opportunity’ to improve patient care, bosses are not willing to make the necessary changes.

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, president of the Committee, said last night: ‘The Government told the public that the NHS is broken. This will not be news of patients, or for their staff.

‘Nor does this committee, which has long warned the systemic problems that affect NHS, problems that the Government has transformative ambitions to address. We were horrified, then, to find among the senior officials in charge of delivering these ambitions some of the worst complacency shown at the PAC in my time serving in it. ”

NHS England is accused of the report of being “too optimistic” in its ability to improve productivity, and that government ambitions for NHS seem to “be contrary to the lack of ideas or boost officials.”

In September, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer established plans for ‘three great shifts’ in the NHS: pass from the hospital to community care; From analogue to digital; and treating disease disease until people get sick first.

However, the PAC report reveals that, under interrogation, officials of the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England did not seem ready to assume that. He states: “There was no real motivation and preparation to boost the change in the NHS that is needed.”

It also reveals that the digital change in parts of the NHS has been ‘glacial slowly’, and some trusts still depend on fax machines.

The NHS is led by bureaucrats who ‘lack ideas’ and are obstructing the necessary reforms to solve it, a condemnatory report of parliamentarians warns today (stock image)

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) discovered that although the Government's ambitions to review the health service represent a 'gold opportunity' to improve patient care, bosses are not willing to make the necessary changes (stock image )

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) discovered that although the Government’s ambitions to review the health service represent a ‘gold opportunity’ to improve patient care, bosses are not willing to make the necessary changes (stock image )

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, president of the Committee, said last night: 'The Government told the public that the NHS is broken. This will not be news of patients, or for their staff '

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, president of the Committee, said last night: ‘The Government told the public that the NHS is broken. This will not be news of patients, or for their staff ‘

Those who gave evidence to the Committee included Amanda Pritchard, executive director of NHS England, Julian Kelly, its financial director, and Sir Chris Wormald, the then permanent secretary of the Department of Health and Social Care. Sir Geoffrey added: “We have a simple message for those senior officials: really fresh ideas and radical energy must be generated to meet what is required.”

A NHS England spokesman said last night: ‘The PAC report contains inaccuracies of basic facts and a defective understanding of how the financial processes of the NHS and the government work.

“While NHS productivity is now improving in the double levels prior to the pandemic, far from being complacent, NHS England has been open about the problem and the actions taken to address it.”

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: ‘Fixing the broken NHS requires urgent and radical reform. This will be a challenge, but health leaders have said they will meet this task, and we will work with them to deliver it. ‘

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