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Wes Streeting Cuts NHS HQ Staff Numbers In Half

Plans to cut staff numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care were revealed the other day amid extreme cost-cutting procedures.

The ‘bonfire of bureaucrats’ is focused on eliminating duplication throughout the organisations after their labor forces swelled during the pandemic.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is also looking for to tighten his control over the NHS, provide better value for taxpayers and free-up money for the frontline.

Three more NHS England board members yesterday announced they will stop at the end of this month, following the recent resignations of president Amanda Pritchard and nationwide medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis.

The latest leaders to sign up with the exodus are Julian Kelly, the primary financial officer, Emily Lawson, the chief running officer, and Steve Russell, the chief shipment officer and national director for vaccination and screening.

NHS England is the nationwide quango tasked with overseeing the everyday running of the health service and its long-term technique.

It was established by the Tories in 2013 to give it greater political self-reliance but Mr Streeting is keen to restore tighter control from within his Department.

NHS England said in a declaration: ‘As part of the need to make finest possible use of to support frontline services, the size of NHS England will be radically decreased and could see the size of the centre decrease by around half.’

The much deeper staffing cuts follow a decrease of about 4,000 to 6,000 employees at NHS England over the past 2 years and about 800 at the Department of Health and Social Care.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is also seeking to tighten his control over the NHS, in the middle of strategies to cut staff numbers in half at NHS England and the Department of Health

Former NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard will step down from her position at the end of this month

NHS England chief shipment officer Steve Russell (left) and primary running officer Emily Lawson (right) are among the most recent employers to sign up with the exodus

Sir Jim Mackey, who will end up being interim president at the start of April, will set up a transition team within NHS England to ‘lead the extreme decrease and reshaping of the centre with the Department of Health and Social Care’.

He said: ‘We know that today’s news is unsettling for our staff, and we have substantial difficulties and changes ahead.’We intend to have a shift team in place to start on the first April 2025 to help lead us through this period.’

Ms Pritchard said in a note to staff, seen by the Health Service Journal: ‘In the last number of weeks, I have said I think the time is best for extreme reform of the size and functions of the centre to best assistance local NHS systems and providers to deliver for clients and drive the government’s reform priorities.’

She stated Mr Streeting had actually asked Sir Jim and Penny Dash, the incoming NHS England chair, to ‘lead this work, delivering significant changes in our relationship with DHSC to get rid of duplication’.

Mr Streeting stated: ‘I wish to put on record my thanks to Julian, Emily and Steve for their devotion as public servants, and their operate in particular helping guide the NHS through the pandemic.

‘I’ve delighted in dealing with each of them over the last eight months and I have actually been impressed by their ability and focus on providing improvement for patients and staff.

‘We are going into a period of important improvement for our NHS. ‘With a more powerful relationship in between the Department for Health and Social Care and NHS England, we will interact with the speed and seriousness needed to fulfill the scale of the obstacle.’

As of June last year, NHS England used just under 15,000 full-time comparable personnel, consisting of long-term, momentary and consultancy. The Department of Health and Social Care had around 9,000, including the UK Health Security Agency. These are both around 30 percent more than in January 2020.

NHS England chief financial officer Julian Kelly has also added his name to leaders resigning from their positions

Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS nationwide medical director, revealed recently he would step down this summer

UNISON head of health Helga Pile stated: ‘Staff will be not surprisingly worried about this abrupt change of direction.

‘The variety of redundancies being sought at NHS England has actually trebled in just a matter of weeks.

‘Em ployees there have actually already been through the mill with unlimited rounds of reorganisation. What was currently a stressful possibility has actually now become more like a nightmare.

‘Fixing a broken NHS requires an appropriate strategy, with main bodies resourced and managed successfully so local services are supported.

‘Rushing through cuts brings a danger of developing a further, more complicated mess and might eventually hold the NHS back. That would let down the very people who require it most, the clients.’

Matthew Taylor, primary executive of the NHS Confederation, said: ‘These changes are taking place at a scale and speed not expected to begin with, however offered the substantial cost savings that the NHS requires to make this year it makes sense to decrease locations of duplication at a national level and for the NHS to be led by a leaner centre.

‘NHS England has actually currently delivered considerable cost savings and assisted to deliver enhancements in performance, but national bodies and local NHS leaders understand that more is needed this year.

‘These changes represent the most significant improving of the NHS’s nationwide architecture in more than a years. It is necessary that regional NHS organisations and other bodies are associated with this transformation as the immediate next steps end up being clearer, so that an optimum operating model can be developed.

‘This must be about doing things in a different way for the benefit of regional neighborhoods as both patients and taxpayers, as well as for staff ahead of annual study results on Thursday that are yet again expected to show the extreme obstacles they face.’

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