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'NHS regulators are to take control of health services in three entire regions of England where hospitals are failing, the Guardian has learned.

The move is an unprecedented measure to correct system-wide failure in three regions, that will be revealed by the chief executive of NHS England on Wednesday.

The Guardian understands that Essex is one of those areas. Hospitals there have been struggling with staff shortages, waiting time failures and financial problems that have damaged patient care.

Key NHS bodies and regulators will impose a newly-devised and euphemistically named “success regime” on the three parts of the country, and push through determined action to ensure hospitals, GP surgeries and other NHS service providers work together much more closely to tackle deep-seated problems which previous initiatives have failed to banish.'

Beginning of the end.


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...nglish-regions