Last month, health minister Ed Argar told a conference of NHS estates directors that the creation of the NHS Property Board was part of the “critical first step in ensuring the estate receives the attention it deserves as an enabler of care”. It’s a little awkward, then, that the government’s outgoing adviser on NHS estates has told In a candid and wide-ranging interview with HSJ, Sir Robert Naylor said the board lacks influence and the ability to make important decisions, and that its membership is too diluted with junior people. Sir Robert said the board, which was set up following his landmark review of the NHS estate, was being “reconstituted” at the time of his departure from his government role.