Wes Streeting said the public “rightly expect” the Government to sack NHS leaders who are “just not up to it”. 

The Health Secretary will use a speech this morning at the NHS Providers conference in Liverpool to unveil plans to “manage out” poor performing senior managers in the health service. 

He will also announce that hospitals and other providers will be assessed on performance and placed in public league tables. 

Mr Streeting said he believed patients would back the reforms. 

He told Sky News: “Where people consistently fall short and where they are just not up to it, then we will manage out poor performance as well. 

“I think that is what the public rightly expect. They want to know that the investment that is going into the NHS will be put to good use in a well-led, well-managed NHS that delivers great patient outcomes and that is part of the package we are announcing today, just one of a number of reform announcements we will be making in the coming weeks and months.”    

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