§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the current cost in salaries and expenses of managers of regional and district health authorities compared with the equivalent sums paid to their administrative predecessors.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeGeneral managers are not direct successors to administrators and the job is a quite different one. Managers have been appointed from several disciplines inside the service or from outside the service. Our main priority when a general manager has been appointed is to review the whole of the existing senior management structure to reflect the introduction of general management within the authority. The cost of any changes, including the general manager's own salary cost, has to be met within the total provision for management.