The BBC needs to "get a grip" to restore trust in the broadcaster after the Newsnight child abuse slur and Jimmy Savile scandal, Lord Patten has said.
The 68-year-old BBC Trust chairman, who is tasked with restoring public confidence in the corporation, told Sky News there were "big issues" that needed to be tackled involving the corporation, including tough managerial decisions.
He admitted the broadcaster had "taken a big hit" and needed to win back the confidence and trust of licence fee payers by ensuring its "journalism was of the highest quality".
"We have got to make changes and we will make changes," Lord Patten told Sky News.
"What we now need to do is get a grip on what's happening in the BBC, including the journalism which is at the heart of what we do and what we are about.
"We have to make sure that a very large and complex organisation has a leader who has the right sort of support."
His comments follow the resignation of BBC director-general George Entwistle, plunging the BBC into its deepest-ever crisis.
Lord Patten, who appeared alongside Mr Entwistle when he delivered his statement outside New Broadcasting House on Saturday night, insisted Mr Entwistle fell on his sword and was not sacked.
"It was his decision to leave. To be honest, I didn't try to argue him out of it because I think he'd made the right decision," he said.
"George was a very fine broadcaster. It was a tragedy that he was laid low by a lot of the things which he wanted to deal with."
Mr Entwistle quit after 54 days in the job after a Newsnight report wrongly implicated former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine in an investigation into child abuse allegations at the Bryn Estyn care home in North Wales.
He said stepping down was the "honourable" thing to do as he had to take responsibility as editor-in-chief of the BBC, for what Lord Patten described as "unacceptable shoddy journalism".
It was the second scandal to hit Newsnight in recent weeks, following the storm over the dropping of its investigation into Jimmy Savile.
Mr Entwistle's fate was sealed after he was grilled by John Humphrys on BBC' Radio 4's Today programme during which he admitted he did not know about the Newsnight investigation until the day after it was broadcast, and had not seen newspaper reports casting doubts on the probe.
Lord Patten said Mr Humphrys' "interrogative" questioning was an example of the BBC trying to "expose the truth - even when it's horrible about itself".
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