Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS?

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Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS?
Genre	Documentary
Presented by	Gerry Robinson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	4
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original airing	8th January 2007
Chronology
Followed by	Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? One Year On

Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? was a three-part Open University BBC series shown on BBC2 from the 8th to the 10th of January 2007. This is the second BBC series where Gerry Robinson works to turn around failing companies, but whereas his earlier series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss had a commercial focus, this one deals with the public sector.

In order to explore the management culture at the NHS, Gerry was set the task of spending six months at Rotherham General Hospital to see if he could reduce waiting lists without any further spending. Robinson was convinced that he could bring commercial values to the public health sector and that his lessons could be applied nationwide:

“Any business, no matter how large, can be made to work well. I knew nothing about the medical profession but good management is good management – whether you’re running a corner shop or a large hospital. I was working in a hospital in Rotherham but the ideas we were trying could be applied across the NHS to any hospital, anywhere in the country”.[1]