Plans to cut the running costs of the the bodies that plan and manage local NHS services will have a "profound and negative effect" on patients, a senior GP has warned.The government wants to reduce ...

The changes come as part of a wider plan by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has called for a more streamlined NHS leadership structure to tackle financial inefficiencies. The Department of ...

Streeting has acknowledged that abolishing NHSE will take time due to its size and the complexity of its structure ... to ensure that the NHS has the leadership and culture needed to improve ...

But one NHS source noted that the government claimed ... The same source pointed out that "with decrepit hospital buildings a new leadership structure won't make it any easier to carry out ...

Other potential changes include encouraging patients to get "fit for surgery", commissioning some private health care at a national level and reform among NHS leadership. The proposals have been ...