Is Hewitt turning the tide of performance management or swimming against it?

Patricia Hewitt ' s independent review of integrated care systems (ICSs) is aimed squarely at one of the biggest challenges facing ICSs – the strong culture of top-down performance management in the NHS. The reforms introduced by the 2022 Health and Care Act, with their focus on collaboration across boundaries in local systems, represent a direct challenge to this hierarchical culture, and without a new approach to accountability in the NHS there is little hope of ICSs living up to their original promise.

Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news