Starrer says he will abolish NHS England

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Sir Keir Starrer announced the abolition of NHS England in one step, of which he said he would reduce the bureaucracy, save money and bring the management of the health system “back to democratic control”.

The Shake-up brings the service in England again to the direct control of the Ministry of Health and reversed David Cameron, the then conservative prime minister, for the then conservative prime minister.

The British Prime Minister said that the abolition of the committee – the world’s largest government agency – would put the NHS “back in the center of the government” and have free to concentrate on patients and to shorten waiting lists.

He quoted strategy and communication teams in both NHS England and in the Department of Health and Social Care as examples of duplication and waste.

“We duplicate things that could be done once. When we take off what we do today, it enables us to release this money to place it where it has to be, what the front line is, ”said Starrer.

NHS England is responsible for the overall management and the direction of the health service in the country and prepares local NHS systems £ 134 billion GBP.

The intervention of Starrer follows the resignation of the managing director of the body Amanda Pritchard last month, as health secretary Wes Streeting plans for a closer Whitehall control of the NHS.

The street had called for a “new relationship” between the government and the NHS. The scrap of NHS England returns the operational independence, which was granted the service in the context of controversial reforms, which was introduced in 2012 by Andrew Lansley, the then conservative health secretary.

“This is the last nail in the coffin of the catastrophic reorganization in 2012, which led to the longest waiting times, the lowest patient satisfaction and most expensive NHS in history,” said Streeting.

“When money is so scarce, we cannot justify such a complex bureaucracy if two organizations do the same jobs. We need more creators and fewer examiners, which is why I can transfer resources and responsibilities to the NHS frontline. ”

On Monday, employees who worked in central operations in the NHS England warned of job cuts of up to 50 percent and announced the resignation of several most high -ranking civil servants who lead the organization.

NHS maintenance lists have been falling for five months in a row, said Starrer and argued that it was a striking performance in winter.

He said that technology and AI could play a “brilliant part” in improving the NHS, since he turned significantly to a broader questions from Whitehall Reform and claimed that digitization could help to achieve savings of 45 billion GBP in the public sector.