Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from NHS England

It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state

Smarter, more productive, government will require more than yet another bonfire of the quangos

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: NHS job cuts may exacerbate health service’s challenges

Staff shortages, obesity and an ageing population all pose deep questions for which structural reorganisation has no answer

The Guardian - UK

Streeting: I’ll get rid of more NHS quangos and slash bloated bureaucracy

Keir Starmer announces he will be abolishing NHS England to avoid ‘duplication’

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Wes Streeting warns hundreds more health quangos could face axe

Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’

The Guardian - UK

More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped, says Streeting

Wes Streeting said his team would have a ‘relentless’ focus on ‘slashing bloated bureaucracy’ in the NHS

Evening Standard

More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped – Streeting

Wes Streeting said his team would have a ‘relentless’ focus on ‘slashing bloated bureaucracy’.

The Independent UK

Voices: Keir Starmer has been on a journey: From Corbynism to being ‘more Tory than Tony Blair’

COMMENT: And yet Labour MPs and members are remarkably quiet – that will not last, predicts John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Keir Starmer’s Speech Leaves GB News Hosts “Losing the Will to Live”

Keir Starmer's recent speech in East Yorkshire has left GB News presenters Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce less than impressed.

The Fashion Central

30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS

Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%

The Guardian - UK

How did Andrew Lansley reorganise health and create NHS England?

Former Tory health minister’s 2012 scheme marked the biggest reorganisation in NHS history

The Guardian - UK

Ex-minister calls for quangos to face MPs’ scrutiny amid Sentencing Council row

Arm’s-length bodies went ‘rogue’, Sir Christopher Chope told MPs on Friday.

Evening Standard

Abolishing NHS England could shift power from the centre – but health service overhauls rarely go well

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 Conversation

Keir Starmer promises more ‘democratic control’ of the NHS – how do other European countries do it?

Sir Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, announced on March 13 that the government will move to abolish NHS England in the next two years. During this period, the government plans to bring its functions under the UK’s health ministry, with the aim of bringing the health service “into democratic…

The Conversation

Scottish Labour minister slammed after 'misleading' claim about Scotland's NHS

A Scottish Labour minister has been slammed after making a "misleading" claim about Scotland's NHS ...

The National (Scotland)

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Keir Starmer to abolish NHS England – the pros and cons

The UK government has announced the abolition of NHS England, phased over two years. In practice, this will involve merging some functions and staff from NHS England into the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). As part of the change, the government has stated that it expects to reduce…

The Independent UK

What could Labour abolish next after NHS England was scrapped?

There are more than 300 ‘quangos’ in the UK – and the largest is now set to be axed

The Independent UK

Six-week pension delays after Rachel Reeves’s Budget triggers panic

Rachel Reeves’ Budget sparked a rush in savers seeking to withdraw cash to avoid paying inheritance tax

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy

The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Is the abolition of NHS England snake oil or a miracle cure?

In today’s newsletter: Arguments for and against Labour’s surprise closure of quango at top of the health service

Evening Standard

What the papers say – March 14

Here are the biggest stories leading Friday’s papers.

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job losses for doctors and nurses

Wes Streeting squirmed when asked if abolishing NHS England to bring the health service back into government control would result in job losses for doctors and nurses.

The Guardian - UK

Streeting’s ‘shock’ at scale of NHS struggles inspires big political gamble

Health secretary consistently rejected notion of axing NHS England on the basis of legal challenge he must now tackle

The Independent UK

Abolishing NHS England gets full marks for ambition

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: It’s an extremely bold decision by Starmer to overhaul Britain’s biggest employer but it’s a task every government has attempted – and so far failed

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting’s ‘high-stakes’ abolition of NHS England will cut 10,000 jobs

Changes proposed by health secretary predicted to save as much as £500m but could be distraction for ministers

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the abolition of NHS England: political cover for a funding fight

Editorial: Labour’s health service shake-up aims to cut waste and shift resources, but the looming funding gap raises doubts about its impact

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Health

89 stories

the Sentencing Council

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.