pleas prove NHS Managers
should be licensed.
Posted
on November 04
NHS managers must be licensed so they can be struck off in
cases such as the Mid Staffordshire scandal, says UKIP Health Spokesman Louise
Bours.
The trust that ran Stafford Hospital pleaded guilty today to four health
and safety breaches relating to patients who died between
October 2005 and May last year.
Three of the deaths happened after falls. A fourth occurred when a
patient was given penicillin despite staff being informed she was allergic to
it.
Ms Bours, MEP for the North West, said: “This confirms our view that NHS
managers should be licensed in much the same way as doctors and nurses, who are
regulated by the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery
Council.
“In
our general election manifesto we pledged to introduce a ‘licence to
manage’ as a statutory requirement to prevent incompetent, negligent or bullying
managers being moved sideways or re-employed by the NHS as external
consultants.
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