Health and Social Care Leadership Review

Andrew Murrison Excerpts

Wednesday 8th June 2022 Commons Chamber

[Sajid Javid]

The place-based working that the hon. Gentleman talks about is also at the heart of the integration White Paper that the Government presented recently.

[Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con)]

I welcome Gordon Messenger’s review, but does the Secretary of State not agree that in the history of the national health service, reorganising senior management has often been a distraction? Will he prioritise the area that would make a real change to health and care—the interface between the two—and focus on career progression and development for care workers in particular, who hold the key to unblocking the awful problems that we have in both sectors?

[Sajid Javid]

I know my right hon. Friend speaks with experience, and I appreciate that he will not have had time to look at the report in detail yet, but I think when he does read it he will find that it is precisely what he has just asked for. This is not a reorganisation; it is all about strengthening management, and the report sets out in quite some detail how that can work.