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

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Health tsars

Harry Cayton

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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 Harry Cayton

Director of patients and the public

Appointed: part time, May 2002; full time, April 2003

 
My achievements: The NHS Plan drives the NHS towards a really patient centred service. My role is to advise ministers and colleagues in the Department of Health and the NHS on how that might be achieved. The formal patient and public involvement structures are a part of this, but the real issue is how we nationalise good practice.

I aim to be an advocate and a catalyst for patient centred health. Since joining the Department of Health I have taken on two specific pieces of work. I have directed the national consultation on choice, responsiveness, and equity, published in December (13 December 2003, News Extra, bmj.com). And I am preparing, with a group of experts, proposals on reform of the charging structure for NHS dentistry.

What have I achieved? It's far too . . . [Full text of this article]


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