During a special report on the NHS, Freeman told The Sunday Show: “Successive governments – my own included – do not take a long-term, beyond-the-electoral-cycle view of our health service.
“They do not take a view that says some of the people who best know what we need to do are actually our clinical and frontline teams.”
She said a key to improving the health service was “don’t leave it to the politicians” and to gather “widespread” views from clinical teams.
“I’m including the housekeeping, the janitorial, the booking staff, the maintenance, as well as the consultants, the doctors, the nurses, physios and others,” she added.
“Get them to sit down and work out what they think needs to be done in order to allow them to deliver a better service.
“I would put money on the fact that actually they know that they have some of the answers already.”
