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Storm Newton

NHS England job cuts down to ‘failure of the system’, Streeting says

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he wants to reduce NHS ‘waste, inefficiency and duplication’ (Leon Neal/PA) - (PA Wire)

The jobs of health service staff put at risk following the abolition of NHS England is due to the “failure of the system they work in”, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting told MPs he did not “take these decisions lightly”, but said patients and frontline staff will welcome the move to “free up hundreds of millions of pounds”.

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