NHS Improvement

NHS Improvement is to be the regulator of all NHS Trusts from April 2016.

It is to be created by the merger of the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor. The chair will be Ed Smith. Jim Mackey, from the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is to be the Chief Executive and Lord Ara Darzi will become a non-executive director.

It will take on the patient safety function from NHS England.[1]

KPMG were given a £1 million contract to produce an organisational structure in November 2015.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "KPMG wins £1m contract to design NHS Improvement". Health Service Journal. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "21 COMMENTS KPMG has won a contract to design how NHS Improvement will be created and function.". Health Service Journal. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
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