NHS England – the administrative body which runs the national health service – is be abolished in a bid to slash red tape, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.
The prime minister said he was scrapping the “arms-length body” to bring management of the NHS “back into democratic control”.
This move – which is to the administrative body rather than the service itself – will put the NHS “back at the heart of government where it belongs,” he said.
It would also “free” the service to “focus on patients, less bureaucracy, with more money for nurses”, the prime minister argued.
It comes after a number of senior NHS England executives announced they will be stepping down, including its boss Amanda Pritchard, its chief financial officer Julian Kelly, chief operating officer Emily Lawson and chief delivery officer Steve Russell.
The decision to abolish NHS England, which was not in Labour’s manifesto forms part of the government’s plan to make savings across the service and across all government departments.
The announcement came as the prime minister gave a speech in East Yorkshire on the government’s plans to transform government departments and the civil service through AI.
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