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Wes Streeting said his team would have a ‘relentless’ focus on ‘slashing bloated bureaucracy’ in the NHS

COMMENT: And yet Labour MPs and members are remarkably quiet – that will not last, predicts John Rentoul

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.

Sir Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, announced on March 13 that the government will move to abolish NHS England in the next two years. During this period, the government plans to bring its functions under the UK’s health ministry, with the aim of bringing the health service “into democratic…

A Scottish Labour minister has been slammed after making a "misleading" claim about Scotland's NHS ...

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…

There are more than 300 ‘quangos’ in the UK – and the largest is now set to be axed

Rachel Reeves’ Budget sparked a rush in savers seeking to withdraw cash to avoid paying inheritance tax

The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins