Hope over experience? Patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review.

Abstract

Penny Dash’s review of patient safety in England has recommended major changes to the organisational landscape.1 National bodies will be abolished or merged, and strategic planning and coordination is to be led by a newly reinvigorated National Quality Board. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will take on some functions vacated by the agencies being disbanded, while at a local level, NHS trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) will assume increased responsibility for managing, monitoring, and improving quality and safety, overseen by CQC.1