Department of Health and Social Care
Government response
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry

Department of Health leadership

The inquiry set out a number of challenges for the Department of Health to work more effectively.

The department is taking on these challenges by:

  • establishing a programme throughout the whole organisation to ensure staff have the opportunity to experience the realities of life in front-line organisations

  • improving policy making

  • working to ensure it has the right culture and practices in place to be an effective steward of the health and care system

Department of Health leadership

  • Recommendation 286
    Public debate regarding major structural change in the healthcare system
  • Recommendation 287
    Leading the development and implementation of standards
  • Recommendation 288
    Clinical involvement in policy decisions
  • Recommendation 289
    Department of Health officials connecting to the NHS
  • Recommendation 290
    Department of Health culture

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