Kingsley Manning

This article is part of the Health Portal project of Spinwatch.

Kingsley Manning is the Executive Chairman for Health at Tribal, an outsourcing firm with £150m worth of UK government contracts. In 1986, he founded Newchurch Limited, which became part of Tribal in 2009. He has acted as a special advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Health, the Transport Select Committee and the National Audit Office.

Activities

Tribal describes itself as being 'at the heart of helping reshape the NHS. We are the largest provider of professional services to the UK healthcare sector, working with NHS organisations to improve the commissioning and provision of services. Our service delivery, advisory, and technology solutions are helping achieve better healthcare for all.

According to Manning:

The vision offered in ‘Liberating the NHS’ is appealing and makes sense. The real tests, however, are more practical and pragmatic. Making the necessary improvements in productivity and engaging the public and the GPs in major decisions about the configuration of local health services are both major challenges. These difficulties will have to be managed during a period of unparalleled transition.

Tribal works in genuine partnership with NHS organisations. We support the development of NHS staff and help them to acquire new skills and develop new tools and techniques. We are supporting the development of GP-led commissioning consortia so that they can minimise redundancy costs, protect local knowledge and become self-sufficient in the future.

Controversies

Kingsley Manning wrote to special adviser Bill Morgan in December. The email said: “Further to our conversation, please find attached a list of GPs you may want to contact with respect to the launch of Consortia Pathfinders; we haven’t briefed them so somebody would need to talk to them before they were exposed to the press.”

Affiliations

• former adviser to a parliamentary committee on health.

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