Axing NHS England – a diversion from urgent problems?

Last week’s shock announcement of the big top-down reorganisation of the NHS, with the decision to scrap NHS England (announced just three days after Health Secretary Wes Streeting called for its staffing to be halved), seems to have diverted a lot of news media from the ongoing problems at the front line in hospitals and mental health services.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) was quick to respond on the day to Keir Starmer’s speech abolishing NHSE, with a press release headed: “Abolishing NHSE ‘must not distract’ from focus on quality of patient care”. It argued:  Click on the link below to read the article on the Lowdownnhs website.

Axing NHS England – a diversion from urgent problems? - The Lowdown