The new health secretary Andrew Lansley used his speech at the NHS Confederation annual conference in Liverpool (24th June 2010) to call for stronger leadership, better outcomes, greater innovation and more accountability in the NHS.
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The NHS Confederation website reports:
“He outlined its purposes and principles, in particular his wish to empower the service, professionals and the front line.
Free to innovate
He was clear that he wants the NHS to be free to innovate and promised to be clear about what the service will be asked to do rather than how. He said: “I want to provide freedom, responsibility and accountability so that clinicians don’t have to wait for permission to move from the thing that is targeted to something better.” And he said the white paper will show where the new accountability will lie, adding: “Where the Secretary of State is not responsible, I will set out who is.”
