Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced NHS England will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy” and bring management of the health service “back into democratic control”.
"I don’t see why decisions about £200 billion of taxpayer money on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS, should be taken by an arms length body," he said in a speech in Hull.
"I’m bringing management of the NHS back into democratic control by abolishing the arms length body NHS England," the PM revealed.
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