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Government announces move in effort to reduce ‘postcode lottery’ of free access to emergency contraception

Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has announced plans to abolish NHS England, the organisation that oversees and manages the NHS in England, employing 19,000 people.

National Fraud Initiative report for Cabinet Office identified Defra employee also being paid by DHSC for full-time role

The UK government has announced the abolition of NHS England, phased over two years. In practice, this will involve merging some functions and staff from NHS England into the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). As part of the change, the government has stated that it expects to reduce…

In today’s newsletter: Arguments for and against Labour’s surprise closure of quango at top of the health service

Health secretary consistently rejected notion of axing NHS England on the basis of legal challenge he must now tackle

The NHS England workforce will be halved in a bid to slash costs and cut duplication, but will it work?

We look at what the organisation does, after Keir Starmer’s attack on ‘two layers of bureaucracy’

The quango employs more than 15,000 staff.

The health secretary will shrink NHS England’s workforce to save money and avoid ‘duplication’