Good to hear this I think.
“ Wes Streeting has vowed to rid the NHS of “rotten apple” senior managers who earn £145,000-a-year.
The Health Secretary said it was a “guilty secret” of the NHS that poor performing leaders were able to “reincarnate” elsewhere in the service.
Mr Streeting made the comments ahead of the unveiling of plans to sack consistently bad managers and rank hospitals on performance in new public league tables.
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that “rotten apples are unacceptable and give the rest of the profession a bad name”.
He said: “Where we have poorly performing senior managers I will make no apology for managing those people out because people know, and this is the guilty secret of the NHS, there are very senior managers who are paid on average, let’s not forget, £145,000 a year who are managed out, given a pay off in one trust and then reincarnate in another NHS trust.
“Those might be the rotten apples and I want to recognise that there are some outstanding leaders right across the NHS but those rotten apples are unacceptable and give the rest of the profession a bad name so we have got to manage those out as well as investing in leadership development training and crucially setting free the highest performers so we have less top down, less centralisation, less management by diktat from the centre.”
