Managers in Partnership

"On 5 July we start together the new National Health Service. It has not had an altogether trouble-free gestation! There have been understandable anxieties, inevitable in so great and novel an undertaking. Nor will there be overnight any miraculous removal of our more serious shortages of nurses and others and of modern replanned buildings and equipment. But the sooner we start, the sooner we can try to see to these things and to secure the improvements we all want...My job is to give you all the facilities, resources and help I can, and then leave you alone as professional men and women to use your skill and judgement without hindrance. Let us try to develop that partnership from now on."