Four NHS trusts that failed to make significant improvements since receiving zero-star ratings last September will have their management franchised to other NHS organisations, the Department of Health announced earlier this week.
The move is a stark warning to social services departments, which will receive their first star ratings by the summer as part of the new performance monitoring approach.
While high performing three-star social services departments will be granted more freedoms and a lighter inspection regime, poorly performing no-star councils will be subject to government intervention.
Franchises for the trust chief executive posts at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, and Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust will be open to NHS managers with a proven track record of delivery and are expected to be allocated in April. Each franchise will be for three years and be reviewed annually.
Seven other NHS trusts given a zero-star rating were saved from intervention after making "significant improvements".
- For more on the star rating system go to www.community-care.co.uk and search using the word "star"
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