NHS England is expected to be brought back into the Department of Health within two years, while the cuts to integrated care boards (ICBs), which plan health services for individual regions, will reduce their headcounts by 50%.
NHS Providers’ chief executive Daniel Elkeles said: "This is a pragmatic step that means planned redundancies can now go ahead.
So this appears to be related to bringing NHS England out of being a quango and back into public control. That’s a bit of a relief, actually. The headline had me worried.
I think reversing Cameron’s move to make NHS England a quango with an extra layer of middlemen is a good one.
Eliminating NHS England was announced ages ago - potentially as a manifesto pledge but I don’t remember - so layoffs associated with that were already planned. Whatever they’re announcing here must be something extra or it wouldn’t break the disagreement.
So this appears to be related to bringing NHS England out of being a quango and back into public control. That’s a bit of a relief, actually. The headline had me worried.
I think reversing Cameron’s move to make NHS England a quango with an extra layer of middlemen is a good one.
Eliminating NHS England was announced ages ago - potentially as a manifesto pledge but I don’t remember - so layoffs associated with that were already planned. Whatever they’re announcing here must be something extra or it wouldn’t break the disagreement.