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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS England to cut workforce by half as Streeting restructures

Health secretary Wes Streeting leaving Downing Street.
The changes will give health secretary Wes Streeting far more control over the organisation. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

NHS England will lose half its staff and a huge swathe of its senior management team as part of a brutal restructuring under its new boss.

Its workforce will shrink from 13,000 to about 6,500 as entire teams are axed to save money and avoid “duplication” with officials at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

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