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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aisha Rimi

Majority of NHS targets ‘could be abolished in 2023 after review of health service’

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The government could scrap a number of NHS targets after a review of the health service, it has been reported.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and health secretary Steve Barclay commissioned Patricia Hewitt, a former Labour health secretary, last month to review how the NHS’s new integrated care systems should work, as well as how the health service should work to “empower local leaders”, giving them more autonomy.

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