Managers from top-performing NHS hospitals are to be sent into failing ones in England to try to improve them.
Bonus payments will be available to trusts if their managers and senior doctors raise standards at failing sites, in a move that has echoes of the "super-heads" scheme for schools.
Eleven trusts were put in special measures in July following a review into trusts with high death rates.
Labour said what the hospitals needed was more nurses on the ground.
Ministers will set out later how those 11 trusts will be twinned with more successful hospitals.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to contrast this approach with the use of management consultants that has been favoured in the past.
He will say that getting the right leaders in for the "long haul" and to do the "hard graft" gives these hospitals the best chance of real change.
"With the help of inspiring NHS leaders and their teams from our leading hospitals, I am confident that we can get these hospitals out of special measures and on the road to recovery," he is expected to say later.
The 11 trusts were placed in special measures after a review by NHS medical director Prof Sir Bruce Keogh.
Prof Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund think tank, said: "Bringing in experienced NHS managers has huge potential as long as they are given enough time to bring about change and have enough resources, and, crucially, their own hospitals are able to have the right leadership while their focus is elsewhere."
'Management solution'He added previous attempts to use the skills of managers at successful trusts had led to performance at those organisations being dragged down as hospitals were "much more complex than schools".
Shadow health minister Jamie Reed said: "This is a management solution, not a front-line solution.
"What Keogh revealed was that many of these trusts have lost staff in recent years and what they need is more nurses on the ground."
Sir Bruce was asked to look at standards of care at the 14 trusts with the worst death rates, following the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Among the problems identified were:
- patients being left on trolleys, unmonitored for excessive periods
- poor maintenance in operating theatres, potentially putting patients in danger
- patients often being moved repeatedly between wards without being told why
- staff working for 12 days in a row without a break
- backlogs in complaints
But Sir Bruce said while the failings were significant they had found nothing on the scale of the Stafford Hospital, where hundreds suffered neglect and abuse.
The 11 trusts in special measures are:
- North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
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