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Health Secretary declines to be drawn on benefit freeze ‘speculation’

Reports suggest the Government could be preparing to abandon plans to freezethe personal independence payment.

Evening Standard

Labour consider benefits cuts U-turn after backlash from MPs

CONTROVERSIAL proposals to cut PIP may be dropped after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs, according to reports

The National (Scotland)

Deploying top doctors in high joblessness areas cuts NHS wait lists – Streeting

The Health Secretary started the scheme in September, tasking the clinicians with improving care in 20 areas.

The Independent UK

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Cuts to welfare. Cuts to international aid. Has Labour lurched too far to the right?

People on benefits are worried and some MPs are talking of ‘cruelty’. Is Keir Starmer’s plan to cut public spending a betrayal of his party’s values?

The Guardian - UK

Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet

Expert clinicians are being dispatched to areas with high levels of unemployment

The Independent UK

Streeting: I’ll get rid of more NHS quangos and slash bloated bureaucracy

Keir Starmer announces he will be abolishing NHS England to avoid ‘duplication’

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting warns hundreds more health quangos could face axe

Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’

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More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped – Streeting

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

The Independent UK

More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped, says Streeting

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

Evening Standard

Voices: Keir Starmer has been on a journey: From Corbynism to being ‘more Tory than Tony Blair’

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

The Independent UK

30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS

Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%

The Guardian - UK

How did Andrew Lansley reorganise health and create NHS England?

Former Tory health minister’s 2012 scheme marked the biggest reorganisation in NHS history

The Guardian - UK

What could Labour abolish next after NHS England was scrapped?

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

The Independent UK

Friday briefing: Is the abolition of NHS England snake oil or a miracle cure?

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

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The Independent UK

Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job losses for doctors and nurses

Wes Streeting squirmed when asked if abolishing NHS England to bring the health service back into government control would result in job losses for doctors and nurses.

The Guardian - UK

Streeting’s ‘shock’ at scale of NHS struggles inspires big political gamble

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

The Independent UK

Abolishing NHS England gets full marks for ambition

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: It’s an extremely bold decision by Starmer to overhaul Britain’s biggest employer but it’s a task every government has attempted – and so far failed

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting’s ‘high-stakes’ abolition of NHS England will cut 10,000 jobs

Changes proposed by health secretary predicted to save as much as £500m but could be distraction for ministers

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the abolition of NHS England: political cover for a funding fight

Editorial: Labour’s health service shake-up aims to cut waste and shift resources, but the looming funding gap raises doubts about its impact

Evening Standard

NHS England to be abolished to ‘cut bureaucracy’ and save millions – Starmer

NHS England is a public body delivering services with taxpayers’ money.

Evening Standard

MPs raise concerns over ‘bold’ plans to abolish NHS England

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it was not a decision he had taken ‘lightly’.

The Guardian - UK

Why has NHS England been abolished and what does it mean for patients?

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

Evening Standard

NHS England: What is it and what does it do?

The quango employs more than 15,000 staff.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer scraps NHS England to put health service ‘into democratic control’

Health secretary says end of ‘biggest quango in world’ is final nail in coffin of Andrew Lansley’s 2012 reorganisation

The Independent UK

Health secretary Wes Streeting ‘horrified’ after aide admits indecent exposure

Health secretary called for Sam Gould to resign as a councillor

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