Paul Stanton
Paul Stanton is founder and CEO of Southminster Consultancy Associates (SCA). Until April 2008 when the NHS Clinical Governance Support Team (CGST) closed, Paul Stanton was Director of NHS Board Development. In this role, he led a team of former Health Authority, Trust and voluntary sector CEOs, initially working with NHS Boards to promote effective clinical governance. In 2004/5 his team developed the concept of ‘Integrated Governance’ to help NHS bodies to align all the domains of governance in the interests of safe and high quality care, cost-effectiveness and service reform across local health and social care communities. In 2006 he spent a year seconded to the DH as a Senior Adviser on Standards and Quality, working on new system regulation. He is a visiting Professor in the School of Health, Education and Community Studies at Northumbria University and in this capacity has just founded the ‘Humanising Healthcare’ national project . He is co-founder of the award winning ‘Patient Voices’ programme and has published widely on the themes of clinical and corporate governance.
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CommentPaul Stanton on the dilemmas of NHS governance
This is the first of my articles that explicitly addresses executive as well as non-executive NHS board members.
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Paul Stanton on steering the NHS through financial crisis
The credit crunch and the consequent financial turmoil it has unleashed is a global phenomenon. For those who govern NHS organisations, whether as commissioners or providers, the mantra 'think global, act local' has never been more pertinent.
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Paul Stanton on NHS boards' duty to the public
The good of the public must be served ahead of NHS boards’ narrowly defined organisational interests, placing them as servants of the community need and not its masters.
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Paul Stanton on local legitimacy in the NHS
In the first article of this series, I began to explore the nature and the scale of the challenges that confront NHS organisations and those who govern them in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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Paul Stanton on the challenge of NHS governance
Governing an NHS trust is one of the most challenging tasks I have encountered in a working life that has spanned private industry, local government, the voluntary sector, universities and the European Union.