‘Complacent’ health chiefs in England lack drive to transform NHS, say MPs

The chair of the committee, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, said he was ‘aghast’ at the complacency of senior officials. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Plans to radically reform the health service are at risk because senior leaders of both NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) are “complacent” and lack dynamism, MPs have said.

In an excoriating report the public accounts committee (PAC) warns that officials in England have neither the ideas nor the drive to implement the health service transformation required by Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting.