Overview

• Plans announced by Health Secretary Wes Streeting confirm managers guilty of serious misconduct will no longer be eligible for board-level or direct-report senior NHS roles.
• Executives who retaliate against or silence whistleblowers will face permanent bans from future NHS leadership positions.
• Next session’s legislation will establish statutory professional standards for NHS managers and extend disbarment powers to the Health and Care Professions Council.
• The reforms address long-standing oversight gaps where non-clinical NHS managers operated without a binding regulatory framework.
• Over 4,900 submissions to a public consultation on manager regulation have informed the government’s tougher accountability framework.