Video: Jeremy Hunt announces plans to turn around failing hospitals The high performing hospitals will enter into contracts with the NHS Trust Development Authority or regulator Monitor to support the special measures hospitals. The mentor hospitals will be paid for the work, which will help back-fill management posts according to Mr Hunt, and will have access to a special incentive fund. One example is George Elliott Hospital in Nuneaton, which has been placed in special measures and is in "desperate need" of IT improvements. That hospital has been partnered with University Hospitals Birmingham, which Mr Hunt said has one of the best IT systems in the country. "I am responsible for making sure all our hospitals in the NHS are safe, but I've concluded the best way to do that is to tap into the inspirational leadership of people like Dame Julie Moore of University Hospitals, Birmingham," Mr Hunt said. "I think if we tap into those skills, if we properly have a contract with those hospitals, and say 'we are formally asking you to help us turn around a struggling hospital, I think that we are going to get results that we haven't before," he added.