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Anon 346 - Sir Robert IS widely respected, for many reasons but in my book because he is willing to take decisions such as outsourcing out of hours imaging reporting to Australia, and swapping services to create larger centres of excellence etc, all of which results in better services for patients at lower cost to taxpayer. He does this in spite of resistance from luddite medical and non medical trade unions and narrow minded groups that dont really represent patients best interests. Sadly he is in a minority in the NHS where senior posts are too often given to those who show no leadership and cling on to power and the prospect of a big pension by ensuring that nothing upsets the apple cart.