Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to abolish the "arm's-length body" NHS England. But what is the quango - and why is the prime minister scrapping it? What is NHS England and how does it work?

Peter Sivey receives funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The UK government has announced the abolition of NHS England, phased over two years. In practice, this will ...

There is a "risk of disruption" as part of the government's plan to abolish NHS England, the health secretary has admitted ... of disruption," Wes Streeting told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ...

She is a Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has announced plans to abolish NHS England, the organisation that oversees and manages the NHS in England ...

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to abolish the "arm's-length body" NHS England. But what is the quango - and why is the prime minister scrapping it? What is NHS England and how does it work? NHS ...

NHS England, the administrative body that runs the national health service, will be abolished in a bid to slash red tape, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The prime minister said he was axing the ...

NHS England will be abolished with the loss of 9,000 jobs to divert more money to frontline services and bring management “back into democratic control”. Sir Keir Starmer said an “arms ...

The chair of NHS England has said he does not disagree with the abolishing of the organisation - although he warns that the buck will now stop with ministers. "There will no longer be a separate ...

NHS England - which oversees the running of the National Health Service in England - is to be abolished, the Prime Minister announced on Thursday. In a major shake-up of the health service ...

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NHS England is known as a “quango”, meaning it is an non-departmental public body which operates independently of government. The government has described NHS England as the “world’s ...

The move is expected to save at least £500m a year and could see half the workforce of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care axed. Sir Keir said the previous Tory government ...