Plan to create similar scheme to doctors who can be struck off was ‘too complex to implement’
Plans to bar managers guilty of serious misconduct from the NHS were abandoned after Matt Hancock failed to back them, The Telegraph can disclose.
The Government commissioned a leading barrister to improve the system of accountability for senior executives, amid concern that those disgraced by scandals have been able to move on to posts elsewhere.
Tom Kark KC called for a regulator to be created to maintain a register of NHS executives, in the same way that the General Medical Council controls who can practise as a doctor.
The barrister, who had been counsel to the Mid Staffs inquiry, said in 2019 that a Health Directors’ Standards Council should be created, with “the power to disbar managers for serious misconduct”.