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  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Type: Business and industry issue
  • Date: 7/10/2012

Neil Thomas, On the future of healthcare regulation 

Talking Shop Healthcare - Neil Thomas, On the future of healthcare regulation:

Ensuring that healthcare organizations have competent, effective managers and leaders who can drive improvement and be held to account comes down to a question of professionalization.


Managers are the healthcare employees without a prominent professional body or royal college to represent their interests. This means there is no framework within which the value they bring is recognized, codified or even assessed by an accountable body.


I'm not suggesting this is about setting up disciplinary bodies or procedures - but there should be some mechanism for supporting those who need development and rewarding those who improve patient service.


They may not be clinicians but the management group still has a significant role to play in healthcare provision. As such, the space within which they operate must be further professionalized.

Neil Thomas, a Partner with KPMG in the UK: “Managers are the healthcare employees without a prominent professional body or royal college to represent their interests.”

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