SIR – I welcome the news that Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, intends to get tough with failing NHS managers, who will be sacked if they drop down hospital league tables (report, November 13).

I was reminded of this quote (one of my all-time favorites) during our company’s strategic planning retreat last week. We were doing a review of our "accountability chart." “What the heck is an ...

The coalition has failed spectacularly in its plan to simplify and make the NHS more accountable, a new report from The King's Fund has found. The Tories were meant to simplify the NHS by getting rid ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

BANT has repeatedly called for accountability and to prioritise prevention within the NHS. The UK has seen six Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021, the longest term lasting one ...

DOCTORS gave a guarded welcome today to a Welsh government attempt to hold the NHS to account through public meetings. Health Secretary Jeremy Miles’s decision to hold the series of public meetings ...