BMJ  2004;328:127 (17 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127-a

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Health tsars

Professor Al Aynsley-Green

Katherine Burke

Health tsars: spin or substance?: Eight health directors ("tsars") were appointed from 1999 to 2002. Katherine Burke asked them to summarise their achievements and other people to assess their work. A ninth "tsar", Dr Sue Roberts, was appointed in March 2003 to cover diabetes. The full text is accessible at www.bmj.com

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 Professor Al Aynsley-Green

National clinical director for children

Appointed: July 2001

 
My achievements: I have been successful at increasing awareness among the top team at the Department of Health about deficiencies exposed by the Kennedy inquiry into deaths of babies at Bristol and the Laming inquiry into Victoria Climbié's murder.

I have led the development of the children's national service framework, "Getting the right start." The first part of it, which set standards for children in hospital, was published in April 2003, and the rest is due for publication early in 2004. I have been engaged in the green paper Every Child Matters (published in September 2003).

Now the role for the children's national service framework is to deliver the policies outlined in the green paper. For the first time the framework has given clear standards for the care of children in hospital. I'm proud of the way it looks . . . [Full text of this article]


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