NHS healthcare managers need to be held to account

Commenting on the Government consultation exploring ways to ensure NHS Healthcare Managers can be held to account

Dr Rob Hendry, Medical Director at Medical Protection, said:

“Healthcare managers have a huge impact on the organisations they lead. The culture, environment and behaviour of other staff are greatly influenced by their conduct and actions.

“When problems occur, the lack of regulation makes it difficult to hold managers to account - in contrast to the clinical workforce who are, by law, expected to hold high standards of honesty, integrity and openness and may be investigated by their regulator if concerns are raised. We welcome the Government’s drive to address this gap, and will study the proposals in detail.”

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About Medical Protection

Medical Protection is a trading name of The Medical Protection Society Limited (“MPS”). MPS is the world’s leading protection organisation for doctors, dentists and healthcare professionals. We protect and support the professional interests of more than 300,000 members around the world. Membership provides access to expert advice and support and can also provide, depending on the type of membership required, the right to request indemnity for any complaints or claims arising from professional practice.

Our in-house experts assist with the wide range of legal and ethical problems that arise from professional practice. This can include clinical negligence claims, complaints, medical and dental council inquiries, legal and ethical dilemmas, disciplinary procedures, inquests and fatal accident inquiries.

Our philosophy is to support safe practice in medicine and dentistry by helping to avert problems in the first place. We do this by promoting risk management through our workshops, E-learning, clinical risk assessments, publications, conferences, lectures and presentations. MPS is not an insurance company. All the benefits of membership of MPS are discretionary as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association.