Rather than looking at administrators and what can be done in the event of a disaster, let us look at Dorset county hospital as a classic case of what
to do. It was in trouble and has been turned around, and local clinicians and managers are now talking to the GPs in Weymouth. They are now thinking—don’t laugh—of integrating their services. Well, whoopee doopee, this is huge common sense: not an administrator in sight and, more to the point, not a politician in sight either.