Stewart George and Fred Hucker land top jobs in new NHS set-up

4:00pm Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News By Lawrence Dunhill

Stewart George Stewart George

THE same men who led Buckinghamshire’s soon-to-be-scrapped NHS trust have landed top jobs within the county’s new health system.

Stewart George, who was joint-chair of NHS Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Cluster, has been appointed interim chairman of the new Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Group [CCG].

The Cluster is soon to be disbanded and the CCG, which is made up of 35 GP practices, will take over control of health budgets.

And Fred Hucker, who was the Cluster’s other joint chairman, has recently taken over as chairman of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust [BHT], which runs the county’s hospitals.

According to a job description posted online, Mr George, who has also worked in HR for 25 years, will command a salary of up to £40,000 for about six days work per month.

Mr Hucker, who used to work in the oil industry, earns £36,000 per year at BHT, working about three days a week.

The appointments were mentioned by MP Steve Baker in Parliament this week, as he spoke about the public’s lack of control over closures at Wycombe Hospital.

The Wycombe Conservative told the Commons on Monday: “Senior NHS executives keep circulating....Mr George is now moving to the CCG, and Mr Hucker to Buckinghamshire hospitals trust.

“A new era of openness, accountability and genuine public involvement seems unlikely, and continuity seems a dreary inevitability, but all that ought not to be.”

Though he was not commenting directly on Mr George or Mr Hucker, health minister Dr Daniel Poulter told the chamber: “Before I discuss the substantive points about Wycombe, I should address my hon. Friend’s point about failing management in the NHS. He is right that there is a tendency to recycle failing managers in the NHS....”

Chiltern CCG said Mr George’s appointment was made with “independent local scrutiny”, with the job advertised and several candidates considered. The appointment is currently going through a ratification process involving a national commissioning body.

BHT said Mr Hucker was independently appointed by the national Appointments Commission. A spokesman said his experience with the NHS Cluster will be “invaluable as we seek to work with GPs, social care, local councils and other stakeholders to strengthen and develop services”.

Comments(17)

Dr James says...
4:18pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Fred Hucker....mmmmmm what could that possibly rhyme with, answers on a postcard to BFP please, a starter for 10,

Fred Hucker ...Dodgy Mucker

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Darren Hayday says...
4:27pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Similar jobs for the same boys.. and still Wycombe Hospital is loosing services.

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motco says...
4:56pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Managers? To paraphrase John McEnroe - "You cannot be serious!"

Many of these 'managers' couldn't run a bath.

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RenegadeJ007 says...
4:58pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Rewards for failures is a norm in this country. Greed and legalised institutional corruption is rife amongst all public services and the government is leading the way in rewarding such behaviour via huge pay-offs and re-appointments of the same disgusting, horrible filthy creatures. How can Stewart George and Fred Hucker sleep at night, knowing they stripped off the most essential (paid-for) services (not free) and pocketed the money themselves via their 72 day work and £40,000 pay. I hope these same people and their families suffer with great pains, the situation they have left High Wycombe's hospital in. I wish all the adversities possible brought upon them in the context of what they have done and I wish they desperately come knocking on the doors of High Wycombe hospital's A&E, only to discover, they closed it down for their own financial and greedy characters !

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J B Blackett says...
5:58pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Oh it's that self-perpetuating gang of money-grubbing mendacious mealy-mouthed Medical Mafia members again.
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Don't ever get ill , or they'll sent the boys round.

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QualityCare4all says...
10:55pm Wed 16 Jan 13

The PCT was done away with because it failed to do its job.

So those who led it now return - to fail again?

They should tell us what they will be doing differently this time.

Makes you wonder about the quality of the other applicants.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
12:53am Thu 17 Jan 13

In the utilities that were privatised by Thatcher you had the same people running it as before but suddenly with telephone number salaries that were a multiple of what they earned doing the same job in the wicked state sector. (Remember Cedric the Pig?
http://www.havingthe
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)

I wonder if this is the case here.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
12:54am Thu 17 Jan 13

www.havingtheircake.
com

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J B Blackett says...
1:42am Thu 17 Jan 13

Do gangsters , robbers and thieves just live off cake ? No doubt stolen form other people.
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Just a quick look at their expense claims would prove it. They are obviously greedy parasitic gluttons as well.
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The Hucker (bingo-caller ?) one gets paid £1000 per day (plus expenses and all the holidays). Perhaps the name really 'Huckster' ?
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We are so gullible to put up with these self-serving committee people - these appointments are so blatantly contemptuous to the general public and are an actual affront to our democratic system.

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Honey33 says...
5:28am Thu 17 Jan 13

First we had Fred at RBS and now Fred in NHS playing with people's lives, things are just going in circles, and money grabbers are at it again

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Michael, HP7 says...
5:48am Thu 17 Jan 13

No doubt this lard-bucket pair of recycled public parasites will have private healthcare plans suitable to their senior status sewn into their ample NHS sporrans. Talk about suspicious packages. Beautiful bloated Bucks finest.

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J B Blackett says...
2:15pm Thu 17 Jan 13

These people should stay skulking about in their dingy money reeking lairs counting their piles of gold sovereigns - not smirking at us and apparently gloating with sickly smiles from the pages of the Bucks Free Press.
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They should also be wearing hoodies and masks as befits alleged thieves and corporate muggers who steal off hapless NHS patients and tax-payers - or at least they should be showing some degree of self-loathing.
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Not flaunt it themselves in public with those sickly stomach-turning self-satisfied smirks.
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Have they no shame ? (rhetorical query)

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washondo says...
3:01pm Thu 17 Jan 13

The current Government promised to rid us of Quangos.
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How does changing the name figure in "ridding"?
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Who are they, and why do we need them?

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stevet123 says...
10:48pm Thu 17 Jan 13

RenegadeJ007 wrote:
Rewards for failures is a norm in this country. Greed and legalised institutional corruption is rife amongst all public services and the government is leading the way in rewarding such behaviour via huge pay-offs and re-appointments of the same disgusting, horrible filthy creatures. How can Stewart George and Fred Hucker sleep at night, knowing they stripped off the most essential (paid-for) services (not free) and pocketed the money themselves via their 72 day work and £40,000 pay. I hope these same people and their families suffer with great pains, the situation they have left High Wycombe's hospital in. I wish all the adversities possible brought upon them in the context of what they have done and I wish they desperately come knocking on the doors of High Wycombe hospital's A&E, only to discover, they closed it down for their own financial and greedy characters !
They are just bum lickers, who do what there higher arkie want , do not give a dam about the less fortunate people, and they are more likely to have private medical insurance as they can afford it, also second jobs

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J B Blackett says...
11:27pm Thu 17 Jan 13

'Health boss Stewart George says public will not derail hospital plan' - from Bucks Free headline 2012.
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These self-serving money-grubbing civic thieves treat the public with utter contempt - and they do not care.either
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Because they think they are untouchable - like Al Capone thought he was , like Pol Pot thought he was , like all the tin-pot dictators and pompous anti-democrats thought they were

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bucks boy says...
3:55pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Stuart George to be Chairman of the Chilterns CCG, what a joke!
This man has presided over the PCT for over ten years and he has failed big time, he is a useless chairman and, certainly does not have the patients interest at heart, the PCT of which he is chairman has never broken even or made a profit under his stewardship. What a joke this man is. Advice to the Chilterns commissioning group; GET RID OF HIM NOW he is a complete waste of space. Message to Stuart George; resign before you are kicked out you are not worth the £40,000 you will be paid for about 2.5 days’ work a week. Message to the CCCG; “WILL NO ON RID US OF THIS USELESS MAN”.

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bucks boy says...
4:03pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Fred Hucker to be Chairman of the Bucks NHS,
What an arrogant man he is, I have attended meetings he has chaired and he is, as well as being grossly arrogant, he is also a verbal bully.
He is as useless as Stuart George. And should be given short shrift by the Bucks NHS.
He is in good company with Anne Eden the CEO of Bucks NHS, she is on £150,000 a year + benefits and Hucker is on £40,000 a year plus benefits for a couple of days work a week. Talk about jobs for the boys (and Girls) who have an appalling track record.

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