Alan Milburn MP was the Minister with responsibility for NHS Bureacracy, hopefully it gave him a few ideas for being Secretary of State
There has been a very welcome and encouraging increase in the use of modern methods of distribution of information, with the key White and Green papers first becoming available via the Web to those of us with a need to know early on what is in them. Still some way to go, but good work. Unfortunately locally this is faltering as unreliable systems have been adopted against widespread advice.
Meanwhile the cabinet office has established another working party of whom we may hope for much, albeit on a time-frame that regards two years as "quick for the NHS"
Cabinet Office PR
Report outstandingly useless bits of NHS paper to
Dr Roy Sharma. Member - Patients not Paper Working PartyChairman - Patients not Paper Working Party
The quantity of paper landing on GPs' desks
Main
ExamplesOther sites
And if nothing seems to be happening contact the Implementation Action Manager
Peter Garland
Room 4N22 Voice: 0113 254 5295
NHS Executive
Quarry House Fax: 0113 254 5188
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE
or
Colin Pearson
NHS Executive
Quarry House Fax:
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE