Health service will improve with changes to senior management

Friday, 25 July 2014 at 09:00

Changing the senior management within the Department of Health and Social Game is a sign of the health service 'upping its game'.

A new medical director and a managing director for acute services have been appointed - both follow the appointment of new chief executive Mark Charters.

The changes come off the back of recommendations made in a review by the consultants Beamans last year.

Minister Howard Quayle told us more about what he hopes to achieve:

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