A “transition team” will be set up in NHS England by Sir Jim Mackey, who begins his role as interim chief executive at the start of April, to streamline roles with the Department of Health and ...

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On March 13, 2025, the UK Government announced that it was disbanding NHS England, the arm's length government body ...

NHS England is being abolished under plans announced by Keir Starmer today aimed at centralising control of the national health service. The arms-length body is being axed to "cut bureaucracy" and ...

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 ...

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?

The government has announced NHS England will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and reform how the National Health Service is run. The changes will not impact anyone's access to the NHS - it will ...

The body responsible for the day-to-day running of the health service in England is being scrapped. The government plans to abolish NHS England and bring it into the Department of Health and ...

Today’s big news is the Government’s plan to abolish NHS England, 12 years after its inception, as part of the Prime Minister’s drive to cut bureaucracy. Here, Eliza Parr explores what this shake-up ...

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 ...