3: Alan Milburn: Can the NHS be saved?
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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What's the Skill Set of a Civil Servant?
In a fiscally constrained environment, how do you ensure that you get the best value for money and the best deal? That means you've got to change the skill set. And we've got to think more broadly about what a modern civil servant really is. I don't believe in untrammeled markets. It was the use of market mechanisms to provide the necessary ginger within the healthcare system to get it to do the things that we needed it to do. We had the permission to think in 10 year terms because I worked out the system was incapable of being saved. Over a period of a few years, it was going to require deep and fundamental reform. When you're doing change
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