Last week I drew the analogy between the role of the administrator in the NHS and the fact that someone with the same name – administrator – winds up High Street retail chains like HMV. The point I was trying to make was that the announcement of an administrator for HMV was recognised as being the end of the line for the current organisation of a failed chain of stores. However when an administrator was announced for South London Healthcare Trust it was seen as another opportunity to develop the trust with the minimal amount of change.
Some of the responses on the blog make the point that hospitals don’t fail in the same way as High Street chains and that the analogy doesn’t work. For me it means that I need to explore the meaning of a ‘failing hospital’ a bit more.
