Der NHS erhält grünes Licht für Tausende Entlassungen

Platitudes like:

„It said every £1bn saved in bureaucracy costs is enough to fund an extra 116,000 hip and knee operations.“

Show how little Streeting actually understands about where the pressure sits within the NHS. Yes, more diagnostic capacity is desperately required, but guess what people also quite like: Clear communication, streamlining of services, quality assurance.

Guess what staff in the NHS would love to see? Better IT systems, faster information governance streams, more support for research and development within the NHS. Just removing ‚bureaucracy‘ as a headline to fund extra hip and knee operations is a dreadful approach that will backfire tremendously.

> The government said earlier this year 18,000 admin and managerial jobs would go with NHS England, the body that runs the NHS,

NHS England was a quango which overlapped heavily with Department of Health and Social Care. The former will be dissolved with the latter having sole responsibility. This is removal of admin roles from a non-clinical organisation which arguably should never have existed in the first place and was only a decade old.