Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (AP)LONDON: UK’s govt is to abolish the £200 billion NHS England to cut bureaucracy and duplication with the department of health and bring it back under govt control, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in a speech on Thursday.Starmer said this would shift money back to the front line and bring the NHS “back into democratic control”. “The budget for NHS England staff has soared to £2 billion.”“Such bloated and inefficient bureaucracy cannot be justified. Frontline NHS staff are drowning in micromanagement subjected to by vast layers of bureaucracy,” he said.Streeting said there are 15,300 staff in NHS England and 3,300 in the department of health and social care. That will deliver hundreds of millions of pounds worth of savings.” It will mean “fewer checkers and more doers”, he said.Integration of NHS England and his department has begun and will be complete in two years. If politicians run the NHS, that is not good news.

Source: The Times March 13, 2025 20:00 UTC