NHS Trust Development Authority

The NHS Trust Development Authority (NHSTDA) is a Special Health Authority of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom.[1] Its formation came as a result of reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in England outlined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

David Flory is its chief executive. He is to retire in May 2015.[2]

The NHSTDA exists to manage the process of NHS trusts becoming Foundation Trusts and to performance manage those hospital trusts that remain directly accountable to the NHS. It is the custodian of a number of Trusts which have chronic problems, and which are unlikely to survive in their present form. In March 2014 it was reported there were 20 trusts which the TDA expected to end 2013-14 in the red.[3]

Alastair McLellan, of the Health Service Journal wrote in March 2014 "The creation of theoretically independent foundation trusts first shone the spotlight on failure at the start of the last decade and so failure has been seen as a symptom of the internal market reforms. However, the truth is the NHS has always agonised over how to deal with poor services in an effective, timely and transparent manner."[4]

References

  1. ↑ "About". NHS Trust Development Authority. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "David Flory to step down as TDA chief executive". Health Service Journal. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Move to block hospital closures law backed by 20 coalition MPs". The Guardian. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Why the NHS must learn to fail successfully". Health Service Journal. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

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