ANALYSIS: If you want to know what a major shake-up of public health services looks like, ask someone in the UK’s National Health Service about the Lansley Wars. It will essentially oversee district health boards' operations – that is patient services – with a tighter rein, to allow the Ministry of Health to focus more on policy wonkery and public health. This is strikingly similar to the creation of NHS England in 2013 to, among many other things, oversee local health services and let the UK Department of Health focus on policy wonkery and public health. Having a semi-independent agency running national health services hasn’t saved Britain from long surgical waiting lists, massive health inequality, or crammed emergency departments. Some small DHBs have struggled to attract the staff to run effective health services locally, and a lot of DHB board members have little to no expertise in running health services.

Source: Stuff June 16, 2020 16:52 UTC