The Latest Breaking News from Alan Milburn

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has announced plans to abolish NHS England, the organisation that oversees and manages the NHS in England, employing 19,000 people.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The results of a nurses’ survey show that patients are routinely receiving care in hospital corridors and waiting areas. The situation is appalling – but health service managers must now examine how their problems are caused not so much by underfunding as by disorganisation

Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture

Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is ‘million times worse’ than when he was in office

The former health secretary has been appointed to a senior Department of Health and Social Care position by Wes Streeting.

‘The NHS is in the worst state I’ve ever seen’ Alan Milburn said

Brief letters: Streeting’s scepticism | The force of female artists | Accordion jokes | Defining ‘scientific racism’ | Tesco’s solar energy drive

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

Move reignites row over Labour figures with private interests having access to government