Keir Starmer, the British Labour Prime Minister, announced plans to scrap NHS England in a bid to address rising bureaucratic challenges within the National Health Service (NHS). Amidst ongoing criticism regarding long waiting lists and previous medical scandals, Starmer emphasized the need for streamlined management and allocation of resources directly to frontline health services. His approach aims to enhance accountability and ensure taxpayer money is invested in essential healthcare rather than administrative layers. This reform seeks to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the NHS by returning its management to democratic oversight.
"Overstretched, unfocused, trying to do too much, doing it badly," Starmer said while on a visit to the eastern English city of Hull.
"I can't in all honesty explain to the British people why they should spend their money on two layers of bureaucracy. That money could and should be spent on nurses, doctors, operations, GP appointments," he said.
"So today, I can announce we're going to cut bureaucracy ... focus government on the priorities of working people, shift money to the front line."
"So I'm bringing management of the NHS back into democratic control by abolishing the arms-length body, NHS England."
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